It was hard waking up…some fools had their music cranked up at 3 in the morning and it was 45 minutes or so before it got turned down to a easier to ignore irritation.
We got to Weed about 12:30. We made a couple of stops along the way and in spite of continually getting behind the same slow motor home it was a pretty easy trip. Seth was happy to see his Mom, we transferred all his stuff to her car and then had lunch at McDonalds….their new Angus burgers are pretty good. We said our good-byes; Seth kept hanging onto my arm…sweet boy and hit the road.
It was pretty warm; we saw 107 around Redding somewhere. We went home a different way today, down I-5 to Red Bluff and then up highway 36, a road we have been on many, many times. Lake Shasta’s water level is ve
ry low and I got a couple pictures at Bridge Bay while we zoomed by.
We were going home this way so Larry could go up to Turner Mountain to retrieve some of his equipment. From Mineral it is a 15 mile drive along a dirt road and the last half mile is uphill, rocky and needs 4-wheel drive; the site hasn’t had any road maintenance at all in the 5 or 6 years since we were up the last time and nature has taken over…the Manzanita and other shrubbery had grown immense and 
encroached heavily on the road….it was a tight squeeze for our truck, which we really didn’t want all scratched up.
It is almost always windy on the mountain tops and yesterday was no exception. The views are awesome but the view of the valley was hazy from smoke, Shasta was a ghostly shape off in the distance, but I was able to get a few decent shots of Mount Lassen and the southern part of the National Park.
After Larry got his stuff all loaded up in the truck it was time to bounce back down the mountain. We stopped at the snowmobile
park at the top of Morgan Summit to use the restroom and noticed how all the Sugar Pine trees were loaded with their very large green, sappy almost foot long cones. We had never seen so many of the trees so full of pinecones…you never want to be under one when it drops one of those cones!
It was after 7 p.m. when we hit Chester, Ca, where we used to live…we decided to stop at the Knotbumper for some dinner. It annoys some people, but the one thing you can
rely on NOT to change is the menu of the Knotbumper, which for us was nice because we knew what we would be getting and it was good as always. Steve the owner was there and sat with us while we ate and caught us up on all the business happenings of the area.
It was almost 8 when we hit the road again; we got fuel in Susanville and hit 395 south for the last leg of a long day. It was pretty windy the rest of the way home. We got home at eleven and we had traveled about 650 miles…whew, but a nice day.
It was hot and stuffy in the house and still about 80 when we got home; it never got below 67 all night.
This morning though a low came through, it was cloudy, breezy and cold. It got down to 62 and stayed that way until around 2 when the sun finally was able to break through a bit and it heat up pretty quickly to around 80.
Larry worked on cleaning the inside of the truck and checking out his recovered equipment. I spent the day cleaning, sanitizing and de-fingerprinting everything. I ran to the store for chili fixings…it was that kind of day, made chili and cleaned, did laundry etc.
Hard to believe that it is the end of August and summer is drawing to an
end already!
encroached heavily on the road….it was a tight squeeze for our truck, which we really didn’t want all scratched up.It is almost always windy on the mountain tops and yesterday was no exception. The views are awesome but the view of the valley was hazy from smoke, Shasta was a ghostly shape off in the distance, but I was able to get a few decent shots of Mount Lassen and the southern part of the National Park.
After Larry got his stuff all loaded up in the truck it was time to bounce back down the mountain. We stopped at the snowmobile
park at the top of Morgan Summit to use the restroom and noticed how all the Sugar Pine trees were loaded with their very large green, sappy almost foot long cones. We had never seen so many of the trees so full of pinecones…you never want to be under one when it drops one of those cones!It was after 7 p.m. when we hit Chester, Ca, where we used to live…we decided to stop at the Knotbumper for some dinner. It annoys some people, but the one thing you can
rely on NOT to change is the menu of the Knotbumper, which for us was nice because we knew what we would be getting and it was good as always. Steve the owner was there and sat with us while we ate and caught us up on all the business happenings of the area.It was almost 8 when we hit the road again; we got fuel in Susanville and hit 395 south for the last leg of a long day. It was pretty windy the rest of the way home. We got home at eleven and we had traveled about 650 miles…whew, but a nice day.
It was hot and stuffy in the house and still about 80 when we got home; it never got below 67 all night.
This morning though a low came through, it was cloudy, breezy and cold. It got down to 62 and stayed that way until around 2 when the sun finally was able to break through a bit and it heat up pretty quickly to around 80.
Larry worked on cleaning the inside of the truck and checking out his recovered equipment. I spent the day cleaning, sanitizing and de-fingerprinting everything. I ran to the store for chili fixings…it was that kind of day, made chili and cleaned, did laundry etc.Hard to believe that it is the end of August and summer is drawing to an
end already!
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