Parkfield-Earthquake capital of the world.

Parkfield

Be there when It happens.

Here's the other marker. So I went back through the file of photos and found a bunch that i missed. Should I delete this post and start over? ugh.

Things were really hopping there at the restaurant.....

we wandered around at the inn and found the pool. we went right in to the enclosure.

This is the main street of Parkfield. Don't blink!

This sign designates the San Andreas Fault and the North American Plate.

Its only taken me 3 days to upload all my pictures from our afternoon in Parkfield! Here's the story--one afternoon I suggested that we go to Parkfield. I've never been there. We were going to take off after church one Sunday last spring but something else came up (don't remember now what it was). So on 10-10-10 I suggested to Kevin that we go there after church. We put the top down on the Miata and took off east on highway 46. Good thing I took along an extra cap because I really needed it! My hair was whipping around all over the place. It was the first time I rode in the Miata with the top down since I let my hair grow longer. Above, is a shot of the old post office.

Parkfield Inn. We walked around behind it and looked in the windows of the rooms and they look really cool! One room had a loft! They were themed rooms but I forgot to make note of their names.

Self-portrait. Like the cap?

we called this beagle the Greeter. see the blurry tail? the minute we drove up, she came up to our car, barked a few times and wagged her tail the whole time.

Another shot.....

When I reached out to pet her, she rolled over and let me scratch her belly. So cute!

We drove over the Parkfield creek and there was actually water running under the bridge!

These notices are posted on the door to the Parkfield restaurant. We never did find out why they close early on Tuesdays.

This boiler is to the side of the Parkfield Inn.

So they planted these markers (the other one is in front and to the side of this one). Notice how long it took the plates to move.

In case you can't read it, the population in Parkfield is 18. (note, that black thing in the lower left corner is the edge of our car.)

Fault signs--we were right on the San Andreas fault!

These signs were in front of the Parkfield restaurant.

After looking around, we went to dinner. These are brands hanging from the ceiling of the restaurant. There were lots of them!

I'm sorry to inform you that my pictures are out of order. I had a really hard time uploading them.... This is the Parkfield creek again.

This is my favorite shot of the whole trip. Isn't it pretty? Credit goes to Kevin--I left my camera at home and he took all these pics with his phone!

Here's another pretty one---

Looking down at the creek from the bridge....

Here's where we turned off the road to drive to Parkfield....

sunset

The guardrail over the creek. I like this photo, also.

right next to the Inn was this little rock garden .

As a footnote, one of my customers a couple of weeks ago was from the Parkfield Inn. So I was telling him about our little excursion there and he said, when I mentioned I had never been there before because its not on the way to anywhere else,

"Either you're on your way to Parkfield or you're lost"