26 January 2009:The sun sets on a long day. We spent the night at Lake Oroville SRA.

I liked seeing the clouds over the highway and the more rural feel of highway 99.

This house or farm was beside the highway, but somehow seemed to be very lonely with its own personal collection of clouds.

These lovely trees (olives?) were swaying in the wind, their leaves moving like the waves of the oceans. Their pale green leaves had a silvery sheen which caught the cold winter sunlight.

We spent the night at Corning Flying J, then cut across on South Avenue to highway 99. I am sort of bored with the same old stretch of I-5, and fancied a change of scene and pace. South Lane is kind of nice, stretching out with views of snow-covered mountains. It’s how you get to [...]

Isn’t this amazing? This is Bridge Bay itself, with the mountains and Lake Shasta in the background. Those things lined up in front are houseboats — like floating mobile homes.

This spectacular bridge takes the interstate back down into Redding. It is the bridge for which the Bridge Bay resort is named, though when we went down there to look for a plaque we couldn’t find our way to the view. This is also where, last year, we saw the firefighting plane from Oregon which [...]

When we set out on our road trip in January, we spent the first night at the rest area north of Redding. In the morning, a raven greeted me against a blue sky.

This cycle path goes on for miles and miles along the levees and banks of the American River. I was surprised to see how far — we were actually at some of these places before we went down to the Unconvention. I don’t think I could cycle five miles, at this time in my life. [...]