15 July 2008 When we left home a week ago last Tuesday, the smoke was this thick. Blech! Just as we turned onto 299, a fire engine shot by. The fire-fighting efforts are still in full swing.

We’re on the home stretch now. We spent the last couple of nights at Castle Crags State Park, a lovely wooded area where we lucked on the one site, next to a meadow, where we could get a satellite signal. Don and I have very different needs; he likes to be online (in a natural [...]

Tomorrow is the day when I blog for 24 hours straight for Christian Children’s Fund. I did the same last year and it was a hoot. I hope that you can join me in the festivities. :) Here are the details as they stand. I should have more information for you tomorrow!

We got to our campground last night around eight and when I woke up this morning I realized that there was nothing I wanted less than to go traveling again. So we stayed put, got another night, and I have been working on the arduous task of reading a novel all day. :: grin :: [...]

Wow…my body’s had more exercise over the last 3 days than it has over the last 3 weeks. On the way to the freeway I spotted the parking area for another set of falls, which I knew to involve a 10-minute hike. I hiked it and was rewarded with a little waterfall that I could [...]

After a lovely overnight in the railroad RV park (or somesuch) we went on to Dunsmuir. I went looking for historical markers and found pretty much none, though I did have a nice iced coffee and bagel in an old brick cafe. They also had a “leave a book take a book” bookshelf, so I [...]

So, we’re just outside the Sims campground, a small and very pretty Corps of Engineers campground that we found by accident while looking for a snarf. And then I discover that it’s a historically significant place and the CCC has built a little trail linking an old sawmill, an old campground, and the first major [...]