Redding is a very attractive city but there are only a few exits from I-5, the primary north-south highway in this part of California. The result is an absolutely bewildering web of thoroughfares that go in almost full circles before terminating in uncrossable highways or dead ends near the freeway. All of these busy roads have substantial dividers running down the center, potentially averting collisions but certainly eliminating free thinkers and fuel economy buffs from taking the shortest or most efficient routes. Left turns are almost right out. This area offer numerous visible businesses where “You can’t get there from here,” or maybe anywhere.

Despite this confusing arrangement, we were able to find the Redding Costco which, it turns out, is almost adjacent to I-5 although we went through multiple stoplights at busy multi-lane intersections before turning east and north and south and west and ultimately entering the parking lot. After an ample re-supply, we then went through more counter-intuitive rambling before arriving at a Trader Joe’s where additional retirement dollars flew out of our accounts in exchange for some of T. Joe’s tasty products which went into our stuffed larders back at the trailer. Returning home was the highlight of today’s ramblings.