Follow your folly!

New Belgium Brewery has a slogan of "Follow your Folly". Actually, it means to follow your sense of spirit or fun, even if the end result is not desirable.

Well, our sense of adventure led us to an unexpected place yesterday afternoon, and we had to laugh at ourselves. This was not something we programmed into our Garmin, "Waltzing Matilda".

We were driving down Hwy. 101, looking for access to the coastline and came upon a sign that said "detour".

Actually, it said "101 bike detour".

We both thought the detour would take us farther west. It led us down a narrow paved road that became even narrower. Hmm....more like a wide bike path!

And then we could go no further! Hence the sign that says this was a hiking/horse and biking trail. Definitely not meant for trucks.....or cars either.
As long as we were here, we decided to at least walk up on the bridge. Might as well, we sure couldn't drive any further!
I took this picture of Don as he went back down to the truck. It gives a nice view of the small country lane (or should I say bike path?) that we drove down!
We managed to turn around the truck. The road/path was just big enough to get through with the other truck parked by the fence. It belonged to the farmer who was repairing one of his fences.

He gave us a strange look as we passed by. I wonder why?
We were the only ones here. Except for the farmer, one person on a bike and
one lonely cow.
The second to last cow can be seen heading back up the to the barn. He must have been smarter than us. At least he knew where he was!
We gave up hunting for the ocean at this point and just went back to the RV park. Even though we had misplaced our sense of direction, we still had our sense of humor. Not too many people search for a beach and wind up by a field of cows!