The southward progress of our trek towards warmth continued today. We broke camp in Redding and hopped on I-5 for the long leg toward Excremento, capital of California and quagmire of governmental tomfoolery. Fortunately, we exited I-5 north of the rampant shennanigans and turned due south on CA-113, an amazingly lumpy two-lane road that allowed us to avoid the nightmare of official traffic congestion and to soon intersect with I-80. We turned west on 80 for two exits and then continued south on an even lumpier section of CA-113 where the paving is such that all the contents of our trailer were rearranged into a more random arrangement.

After encountering some of the most jarring pavement surfaces available outside a motor vehicle test facility, we came to a surprise roundabout in the middle of nowhere where we turned east on CA-12, toward Lodi and the Sacramento River Delta. After some more mildly terrifying high speed/low passing clearance driving, we got to a place called Isleton where we turned off onto a very skinny road atop a Sacramento River levee which we followed for a few miles before arriving at The Lighthouse RV Park (at least our second “Lighthouse RV Park” on this year’s excursion, neither within sight of any lighthouses) and dropping down their nearly vertical driveway and into our lodgings for the next two days.

This park has full hookups, at least in our space, WiFi available at usurious rates and is located about 30 feet below the the top of a massive dike along the Sacramento River and one downpour away from uncontrollable flooding if the levee breaks. Reassuringly, the dike is made of dirt.