South to Monterrey
After our hasty retreat from Bodega Bay in the driving wind and rain we headed south aiming to get past San Francisco on the way to Big Sur. Our first stop was the Tomales Bay Oyster Company for a dozen tasty oysters. From there we made a stop to look around Point Reyes Station and pick up a few odds and ends. We had intended to stop and check out Muir Beach and possibly Muir Woods but the driving wind and rain changed that plan, it wasn’t too appealing to be going for a walk in the pouring rain, so we continued on and made the crossing over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Apparently there is a charge for southbound traffic but to date we’ve been unsuccessful in settling up. The signs say to proceed as the toll is ‘automated’ which is another way of saying it doesn’t work. We both made repeated attempts to pay with our phones, I had one success in setting up payment but apparently guessed the wrong time we crossed the bridge so I didn’t get charged. I tried to set up another wider time frame to no avail, every time I entered my information and submitted it the webpage would blank out my entries and I’d be back to square one. We finally gave up and we’ll see if they mail me something. They will probably spend half the fee collecting it from me. Progress.
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