Lake Shastina 4-25

The following post is from yesterday's journey...we boondocked last night and had no satellite and after two long days of travel and unloading the trailer and getting things put away today (Sunday) I haven't had time to go through my photos or get today's journey written up. I'll add pictures to this post when I post today's entry, tomorrow...clear as mud?!

Saturday, April 25th:
A busy day today, Larry left first thing for Corvallis so he could get new tires for the truck…we had a few more months worth of wear on them, but Larry knew they wouldn’t repair the tire that went flat yesterday with the wear that was on them.

He returned about 11 and we got ready to hit the road…we were hitched up and pulling out just before noon and it was starting to rain. We pulled over to Costco to get some stuff that we wanted to get last thing before we headed out…they were big and we didn’t want to shift things around constantly. We left Costco around 12:40 and headed south on I-5.

Just the week we had been here made such a difference in the trees and grasses. As we headed back over the same country we traveled a little over a week ago there were bright green leaves on the trees and so very many flowering trees in full bloom…white and pink….stunning against the bright green. The sun broke out north of Medford and it was actually feeling a little warm and the passes were beautifully green this time instead of white!

These stand alone Mounts are so pretty and you feel lucky to see them sometimes because they can easily be covered by clouds. Today it was Mount McLoughlin in southern Oregon and it is 9,495 feet in elevation.

I had bought one of Costco’s cooked chickens and we stopped and ate some of that along the way and made a stop along the Klamath river where there were big clumps of purple blue lupines all over the place, but the sun had gone behind the hill and the light was to dim to get a picture! We got to see Mount Shasta today too.

Our book that tells of places to stay for free or nearly free had a listing for Lake Shastina just a bit north of Weed, California, we found it pretty easily, it was just after seven and got ourselves tucked in for the night. It was refreshing to be outside listening to the wind in the trees with the birds singing, smelling someone’s campfire off in the distance and watching the sunset while being overlooked by Mount Shasta. The silence in the trailer when we aren’t plugged in is such a relief to the ears. I used to love when the power would go out at our house because all the electrical stuff that hums all the time becomes still, we are constantly surrounded by noise.

So we are a little less than halfway to Fallon…we traveled 299 miles today and a few of those were our detour to Costco. Sorry you didn’t get a posting this morning, but we were enjoying the peace of nature!