Mid-trip update

Mt Shasta

Grass Lake Rest Area about a half hour south of the Oregon State Line

Just a mid-trip update as we travel from Petaluma, CA to Spokane, WA.  So far we've travel through what's called the "High Desert Wilderness".  Not what I'd call a desert, but I'm no expert.

Redding, CA put us at the northern end of the mid-valley farming country and just south of Lake Shasta.  From there we crossed over the Cascade Range traveling north on US 97 to 

The stand off at Crescent, OR

Crescent, OR.  The landscape of this portion of the trip is very similar to Yellowstone Natl Park.  Looking at the map and based on what I can recall about the history of the Yellowstone hotspot, this may be an area of one of the eruptions of the Yellowstone hotspot tens of millions of years ago.

From Crescent, OR we traveled to Culver, OR (a short day that allowed for laundry to be done.)

Big Pines RV Park, Crescent, OR

From here it's on to planned stops in Richland, WA and Deer Park, WA where we'll invade anther part of the west coast Starks.  Later, David