Good morning, friends! We had a long solar daytime of driving yesterday...370 miles to attain Redding, California. We're staying at a green we've stayed inwards earlier when heading south. It's pretty nice...right off the freeway, in addition to so a piddling fleck noisy, but non plenty to go along us awake. We were pooped pups when nosotros arrived, having spent the lastly twain of days making lots of trips inwards in addition to out packing nutrient in addition to personal belongings. But all that is pretty good forgotten when nosotros awaken on the showtime solar daytime of a trip.
So let's only watch what happened yesterday, shall we? Just earlier pulling out of the driveway yesterday, I took this lastly pic of 1 of the lastly remaining patches of snow. There was to a greater extent than inwards the field. I promise to discovery this completely gone when nosotros larn home.
But I know you're chomping at the fleck to watch all the barns, so hither nosotros go. It seems every bit if it was the solar daytime of a-barn-and-its-friend yesterday. Almost all the pictures I took stimulate got 2 barns for the toll of one.
I similar this side past times side 1 alongside the John Deere tractor beside it.
When nosotros reached southern Oregon, the temperature was inwards the 70's! Holy moly! It's been a long fourth dimension since we've seen warm temperatures.
Around that time, Mt. McLoughlin came into view. This is the exclusively identify on the interstate where you lot tin watch Mt. McLoughlin. Once it's gone, it doesn't reappear.
Kind of surprising when you lot consider its height.
Wikipedia describes Mt. McLoughlin thus:
Mount McLoughlin is a steep-sided stratovolcano, or composite volcano, inwards the Cascade Range of southern Oregon in addition to inside the Sky Lakes Wilderness. It is 1 of the volcanic peaks inwards the Cascade Volcanic Arc, inside the High Cascades sector.
If you lot desire to know to a greater extent than close it, you lot tin read its Wikipedia entry correct here.
H5N1 piddling farther on, nosotros passed over the Siskiyou Summit. This is ever the scariest work of whatever trip due south since this is where nosotros could meet snowfall in addition to ice. With such warm temperatures, at that spot was piddling jeopardy of that, but at that spot was yet plenty of snow. Elevation hither is 4,350 feet.
Rounding a bend, Mt. Shasta came into persuasion for the showtime time.
And then...bye-bye Oregon! And you lot tin bet we'll live coming dorsum soon. Just attempt to halt us!
And at that spot nosotros are...California, hither nosotros come! And hey, How are ya, my California friends?
Although I reminded myself non to convey whatever fresh produce, I totally forgot in addition to brought it anyway. Here, they confiscated all of our limes in addition to 1 of our 3 avocados. I was only glad they didn't accept all the avocados. It was a featured work of lastly night's salad.
And in addition to so for many miles, Mt. Shasta dominated the skyline. We were fortunately unfortunate on a develop trip from Portland to San Diego when the kids were young. We were many hours slowly on the provide trip. Ordinarily the develop would stimulate got passed through hither around midnight, but nosotros passed correct around the base of operations of Mt. Shasta every bit the Sun was rising. It was some of the to a greater extent than spectacular scenery inwards memory.
In the many times I've seen Mt. Shasta, I've been curious close the 2 conical shapes, in addition to so I consulted my friend The Google again. In fact, Mt. Shasta is made upwards of 2 cones alongside the smaller of the 2 called "Shastina." It's sort of an interesting Wikipedia entry close Mt. Shasta correct here.
Just a piddling southwest, you lot tin watch some other cinder cone known every bit Black Butte. When it isn't covered inwards snow, it's completely dark in addition to perfectly shaped.
Smitty was itching to exit on the catio when nosotros finally arrived at the RV park. Sadie ever hides inwards the cupboard for the showtime hour, but it wasn't long earlier she was out in addition to playing mouse hockey alongside a toy mouse she pulled from their toy box. They're pretty seasoned travelers. They move unwillingly, but it doesn't accept them long to larn their adventure paws on. We've left inwards identify the "wind screen" on the catio window. Eventually Mike volition cook something a piddling less tacky for this window.
Catching upwards on the lastly things I did earlier leaving home...I stitched inwards the total hoop of the piddling redwork piece. This is waiting at habitation for me.
Also, I baked a pecan pie for 2 for Pi day. Gotta make it, right? This is the recipe I used, but I only used a Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust.
So, okay...onward! We stimulate got some other solar daytime of driving today. We haven't studied the map yet, in addition to so I don't know where we'll halt upwards yet. We'll attain our showtime "destination stop" at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve past times tomorrow afternoon. We'll watch the poppies on Monday, in addition to and so figure out where to become next. We dear this carefree traveling when there's no itinerary beyond our side past times side stop.