Today we awoke to miserable hard rain and intermittent hail. Our scrutiny of the Weather Underground website on our phones indicated the rain might quit a bit later in the morning and made it simple for us to take it easy with our coffee and Irish Cream while we waited out the downpours. However, by about 0930 we were getting antsy and started our rigamarole for departure. Peggy was smart enough to accomplish her chores in the dry inside the Invader but I was obliged to go out into the rain and mud to disconnect our cable TV (which was shaky at this park) and retract the stabilizers. The very spot where we were forced to connect the truck to the trailer was awash in pools of water that wouldn’t drain due to creative grading of massive potholes by the park operators.

We finally got hooked up and tried to leave but, due to the miniscule RV spaces provided by the park, we had to ask one of the other tenants to move his car which he was only able to park in the road in front of his trailer. We eventually made it the exit for the park and turned west for a short drive to Interstate 5. Soon we were on our way north. We passed through Red Bluff and Redding where we noted the Siskiyou Range ahead of us was covered with a blanket of snow – in late May.

Fortunately, I-5 climbed toward the snow but never got into it although we did have some rain along the way. Rain or not, it is a beautiful drive along this interstate highway which skirts the Sacramento River. We blasted over the Lake Shasta Bridge, continued through Dunsmuir and Weed and, after some 160 miles, pulled into the Waiiaka RV Park across the interstate from the town of Yreka.

We have been here before. It is a very nice park with ample pull-thru spaces, full hookups and cable TV which is fortunate because it is situated in a grove of hardwood trees that offer ample shade but no satellite reception. It is also very quiet at night and it is across the street from the county fairgrounds where they have stock car races on Friday and Saturday night. There are lots of birds, some that are earlier risers than us.