May 16, 2010

Travels: Red Bluff, CA to Rogue River, OR – 213 miles (835 total miles)
Accommodations: Bridge View RV Park; full hookups

We left our beautiful Walmart site at 8:30am, full of granola, canteloupe, and milk, beds made, trailer clean, a Walmart trip completed, Starbucks in hand, and tank full… on the way to Redding.

Mason still had a fever but was handling it wonderfully. Driving gave him time to nap. It was a short drive to Redding where we stopped at Trader Joe’s to get some necessities – the nicest people! Then, we stopped at a Barnes & Noble for Internet reception so we could find a campsite on Shasta lake. Our grand plan was to make a short drive and spend the day playing on the beach at the lake, hiking, relaxing… turns out Shasta doesn’t really have a beach; it is a “beautiful, boater’s lake” I was told, so we scratched that plan and decided to push through since the kids were doing so great. We stopped for lunch at a vista point to view Shasta, which was beautiful, full, deep green, and surrounded by trees.  The drive was fun crossing all of Shasta’s fingers and all the bridges. Some highlights from the drive: green expanse, Sacramento River, trees, snow covered Mt. Shasta, Castle Craggs, Dunsmuir, the Klamath River, and into Oregon (who knew?) with the snow peaked Siskyou Summit welcoming us. Oregon was 83 degrees, cloudy, and green before it started to pour and drop into the 60s.

Again, after locating a Starbucks in Medford for Internet we decided to stay at the Bridgeview RV park on the Rogue River. It was a typical RV park – sites lined up side by side, close together – but it was very clean with a great view of the river. We had a yummy dinner of Sphagetti with homemade tomato sauce and Italian sausage, salad, cookies, and milk, followed up with five tired heads hitting the pillows.

Kids: Mackenzie is reading The Mouse and the Motorcycle, “Ralph will take the ride of his life!” as will we.

Mackenzie, “Why don’t you disconnect the pee and poop tube? Are you being lazy?”

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