Today was not originally a travel day but we found the Nicolaus area so rewarding that we decided to leave early. There is a really great Mexican food and hamburger stand in East Nicolaus but we have eaten there twice and a third time would be dancing with a prospective heart attack. There are some nice nut tree orchards and once in a while we would see a cropduster fly over. Those who like catfish and bluegill go fishing here in the lake but the take is mostly carp, a type of fish so worthless that throwing them back is forbidden. With all these stellar features, we decided to leave a day early this morning and continued our northward trek.

We travelled on CA-70 for about as far as we could go before merging onto CA-99 through Chico. 99 transitioned into one lane each way shortly thereafter but we only had to follow it for about 20 miles before turning off onto a farm road and ultimately to the Woodson Bridge RV Park. The park has some spots right along the Sacramento River and we were assigned one of them. Unfortunately, the spaces are extremely narrow and it took us about an hour to get our mammoth trailer into our skinny spot. Rain made it much more pleasant.

The park has a lot of what are called “seasonal” tenants. “Seasonal” apparently really means “permanent” because some folks have grass all the way up to their floorboards. Many units have wood entry ramps and porches. They also have a substantial quantity of their treasures with them. The treasures are stored under grey and blue plastic tarps when not stuffed under the trailers and motor homes. There is no WiFi in the park but there are full hookups. There is no satellite TV but the park does have rudimentary cable TV that sometimes provides five or six channels with so little static one can almost make out the picture. Three of the channels are Fox so that leaves two or three.