Vacation: Alturas to Weed via Tule Lake

Today was primarily a day of checking out Lava Beds National Monument. I was tired of lugging the camera around, so there are no photos.

From Alturas we backtracked to Canby and took 139 towards Tule Lake. We took the back way into the Lava Beds, stopping at a couple of geocaches near interesting lava […]

Vacation: McCloud to Alturas

Middle Falls

Spending a night in McCloud was certainly a quiet experience. Even though our B&B room overlooked the main street, there wasn’t any traffic after about 8 pm. Since breakfast (a voucher at the café in the McCloud River Mercantile building) was served from 8 to 10 am, and we were up early, we […]

Vacation: We start in McCloud

On our first day of a short vacation to the north east part of California, we headed north on I5. A few miles south of Redding, Karen saw the sign for the historic Cottonwood district, and since it was a good time for a lunch break, we took the off-ramp. In the mid-1800’s Cottonwood was […]