A group of independent and outdoorsy women made their way up to the North Coast, as the Sisters on the Fly, an outdoor adventure group, completed their trek of California with a stay at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds this past weekend and the group readies to celebrate its 25th anniversary later this year. The group has over 800 members in California alone, with over 24,000 in the country. Members, or sisters as they’re referred to, are all around the nation.
Sisters on the Fly travel the country via trailers and RVs as they explore new sights, fish, shop and enjoy the companionship of their fellow sisters. The 25th-anniversary jubilee for Sisters on the Fly is set for October 9-13 in Forge, Tennessee, which is quite the trek for the sisters on the West Coast, so the group decided to have mini jubilees for members who can’t make it to Tennessee in October which is how the group wound up in Ferndale. The trip was the first time in Humboldt County for several of the sisters.
“This is a mini jubilee, we’re calling it Cruzin’ California. We started in San Diego and we ended up here,” Sisters on the Fly’s California Wrangler Connie Amelang said of their nine-day journey up the state. “We’ve got (Sisters from) Idaho, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Oregon, California, Nevada, a lot of states represented.
We’ve got 91 on this caravan, that’s a lot of girls.” While the group is easygoing, there are a few ground rules: no men, no animals and no children. There are some.
