We are in Fort Bragg now and had a long day yesterday exploring Leggett, Avenue of the Giants, and Humboldt State Park.
@Watts_Up, we stayed at the Super 8, which looks rundown on the outside but the room is updated with laminate flooring (no dingy carpet) and very clean, comfortable, quiet. We felt safe here. There's a Safeway a block way and V3 Superchargers a mile away.
We started yesterday at 9am with 98% battery, traveled a total of 225 miles and returned to Fort Bragg at 745pm with 10% charge. Highly recommend Mayan Fusion restaurant in Fort Bragg. The staff is very nice and the food is excellent. If you like seafood, the cioppino here is the best I've ever had, on par or slightly better even than the excellent cioppino I had a few days earlier at Luna Trattoria in Mendocino! Both cioppino in this area beats anything I've compared in Bay Area, Monterrey, and SoCal so far.
Cioppino at Mayan Fusion is full of fish, shrimp, clams, and mussels. Hearty and flavorful without being too tangy, salty, nor acidic:
Cioppino at the reservation-recommended Luna Trattoria in Mendocino, also excellent in flavor:
So from a charging perspective we made it fine, drove through the trunk of two tree landmarks and hit 5-6 other trails and sight-seeing areas (Living Chimney Tree, Gould Grove/Fleischmann trails, Dyerville Giant in Founder's Grove, Rockefeller Loop, "Hobbit house" in Redcrest). We made it as far as Drury-Chaney trail near the town of Pepperwood before turning back to Fort Bragg.
First drive-thru tree in Leggett, CA:
The tree houses at Shrine Drive-thru Tree, in Myers Flat, were particularly memorable and fun to climb to the top:
I didn't realize there's a Supercharger in Eureka, about 30 minutes past Pepperwood. Had I been more aware then we possibly would've reserved a night at the Super 8 in Eureka and continue exploring Redwoods National and State Park instead of heading back to Fort Bragg last night. But it's all fine, we will be back in June. We originally planned a three week drive up the coast from Sacramento to Seattle but decided to break it up into two trips.
So I managed to get a Chademo adapter last month, only to find out Tesla finally made the CCS retrofit available for our Y last week. I had the service done before our trip but ended up not needing either Chademo nor CCS yet. Actually, we were eating at Avenue Cafe (really delicious burgers here btw) and I didn't notice the CCS/Chademo charging station next door until we left the restaurant. I was kicking myself for not seeing it earlier. I would've loved using the CCS option while we ate to top off the battery (we were at 60% at the time), and doing so would have provided more buffer getting back to Fort Bragg and I wouldn't need to stay out till 10pm Supercharging the Y last night. Oh well, Iive and learn. I checked PlugShare, Supercharger map, and ABRP before the trip but wish I paid closer attention to where CCS/Chademo location was in relation to landmarks or restaurant names. I knew it was at a Shell gas station but after driving Teslas for five years I don't pay attention to gas stations anymore.