Today was another travel day. We generally try to schedule travel with the trailer more often than every other day but Lake Minden TT was so uninspiring that we doubled up and headed north. It took us a while fiddling around on back roads and passing through little communities before we made it to I-5 near Williams and turned northwest toward the Oregon border. North of Williams we were passed by a series of brightly painted, decal-encrusted European and American sports cars that apparently had been having a race nearby and were on their way home. The CHP became interested because they had a few of them pulled over and were giving the drivers very sour looks. Maybe someone bolted because there were a lot of cops. We passed through about a million acres of nut, olive and fruit trees, Red Bluff and Redding before crossing the impressive steel bridge over Lake Shasta. Not too much further up the interstate, we turned off on Shasta Caverns Road and took a turn at the challenging curvy, narrow grade before pulling into the Holiday Harbor RV Park right along the edge of the Lake.
The road into Holiday Harbor would scare away most reasonable, prudent people but the RV park down at the bottom is pretty nice. There is a great shade canopy of trees. There are full hookups but no internet or phone service. The lake is beautiful and it is very quiet. Our satellite dish works perfectly here. The temperature today was in the mid-70s. There are ospreys, big scrub jays and woodpeckers that we spotted this afternoon but we also set up our chaises outside and soon us geezers were napping. It was great.
We got a few pix along the way. Click here