Sara and I drove down to Lake Tahoe, but we could barely see it. Wildfires started up overnight in Yosemite and the smoke was already in Tahoe. It was very hazy and you could smell the smoke. Since we couldn’t see anything we went back … Continue readingNext Phase
We left Chico for Lake Tahoe. I didn’t realize it but we were staying in Truckee, CA which is at Donner Pass. If you haven’t heard of the Donner Party getting stuck here one winter, look it up, it’s an interesting story. Since it was … Continue readingReno
We stopped to visit my nephew Mike in Chico. He showed us Bidwell Park, one of the largest municipal parks in the nation. He walks his dog here, hikes and rides mountain bikes. He took us for a tour of the Sierra Nevada brewing company.
The next day we took a side trip to Lake Shasta Caverns. You take a bus down to the shoreline, a boat to the other side of the lake, then another bus up the side of the mountain to the caverns. The interesting part of … Continue readingShasta Caverns
We left Diamond Lake and drove south and back around the West Rim of Crater Lake again. We pass so many mountains and are at a loss what their names are, but the next major one that you can’t miss is Mount Sasha. One of … Continue readingNorthern CA
We have arrived at Crater Lake today. Our first stop was Cleetwood Cove trail which is a one mile hike down to the water on the inside of the crater. It drops 700 feet and being at 6,500 feet elevation, it’s a challenge to get … Continue readingCrater Lake
I’m traveling with my daughter Sara now. We left Bend, and just outside of town is the High Desert Museum. It had a special exhibit called Imagine a World which covered utopian communities that started in the high desert, such as the Rajneesh movement which … Continue readingBend
I spent the last 3 days visiting with my daughter and her family in Portland, Oregon. I haven’t been to Portland since 2019 because of COVID. It was nice to get back to the Northwest – it’s such a favorite place of mine. We had … Continue readingPortland
Today we shared rides to Camp Disappointment State Park, Washington where there is another Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. I wondered why the bus didn’t take us there yesterday when we were so close. But now, after riding up the steep, winding road to a … Continue readingFarewells
“Ocian in view! O! The Joy!” That’s the quote from Lewis and Clark, complete with misspellings. And that is how we are also feeling today. This is the last stop of this caravan. This is the furthest west my rig is going, the south bank … Continue reading“Ocian in view! O! The Joy!”