On to California

Just a few more pictures at Harris beach. It really is a neat place and it's too bad it was misty and rainy while we were there. Then it's on to California!




Well we headed to California in the rain. Got a few pictures along the way of the California coast. Then we went up and up and the coast was more than 500 feet straight down and the road was narrow. Kind of scary on my side which was the ocean side, but Brent just amazes me how he drives this motorhome like he's in a corvet or something.


All through the Redwood National Park it rained but I was still in awe of how BIG those trees are. We didn't stop too much to explore because of the rain but I did get a few pictures as we drove along pretty slowly as the road was narrow and zig zagged alot, plus there were a few spots that they were doing road repair and it was one lane only so you had to wait for your turn.


This tree had quite a history. It's about a 1000 years old and survived being hit by lightning, a forest fire in 1908 and a flood in 1964. It is called the Imortal Tree

We stopped at a "good sam" RV park called Valley of the giants. That was where the immortal tree was. The next morning was sunny so we went into the Redwood shop where they had many things made of redwood. Here's some more fun pics.
This chair was made of redwood limbs and quite unique.

This was a cute from a humongous tree that had a hole in the middle. I wanted to pose inside it but like I said it had rained for several days now and it was really wet inside, but this gives you an idea of how big some of those trees get.

This was another redwood chair that was outside at the redwood shop. We made a few purchases then headed on our way.
Not too much to report as the next few days were mostly driving. From the Redwoods we headed after checking if the road was ok for RV's to Williams California, which took us inland from the coast at Willits California. We went to a Indian casino there called Colusa. That was some undertaking as the directions we had lead us to a dead end road where we had to unhook the tracker so Brent could get turned around which he did. So from there I drove the tracker and he the motorhome and we tried again only didn't turn left quite as quick as we had and we drove. Brent thought we had to have missed it so he stopped at a little chinese place and asked and if we had just gone around the next curve in the road it said we were almost there. When we did get there it was dark and Brent doesn't like driving the motorhome after dark. Sure enough they let us park the motorhome overnight for free, but the spot was quite a ways from the casino, so we just drove the tracker over there since it was already unhooked. They did have a shuttle that would take you though. We signed up for their card and they gave us each a key chain that lights up and $10 in gambling money on our card and 2 for the price of one buffet. It was quite a nice place. We enjoyed the prime rib buffet. We didn't win big but $100 went in the gas fund. I won $60 and Brent $40.
From here it was another long day driving and not much to see. We stayed in an RV park between Fresno and Bakersfield. Next day we started to see lots and lots of vineyards. Grapes and more grapes everywhere.
Next day we drove alot too and there were lots of citrus orchards. I think they were oranges, lemons and grapefruit ones. I think some were some kind of nut trees too. They went on for miles and miles and miles. This must be where we get all our citrus from cause there were sure alot of them. We stayed somewhere around Portersville that night.
Then on to Baker California, alot of the ride was desert and boreing and I did some craft stuff on the ride. Then as we got closer to Baked we passes some huge huge windmill farms. I've never seen so many of them.
There we alot of oil wells being pumped too on this drive too, but when we stopped to gas up it was $3.09 a gallon, so what's up with that?

Well that brings you up to date. We are staying in Baker tonight in a free spot where RV's and trucks can stop for the night. Tomorrow we head to Parump where Brents cousin Janet lives.