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August 16
Okay, all other campgrounds will now be compared to Big Pines RV Park! What a terrific spot. First because the showers and restrooms were spotless and then because of the decorating detail. Every place you looked there was another feature, like the bedpost planter, frog valet at the door to the washroom ... there were hundreds of small items around that if you didn't look closely you'd totally miss them. When you went into the building where the showers and restrooms were you entered into a room that had a desk, a phone, a library and a couple of easy chairs. The whole place was just so inviting.
We went off the highway to go to Crater Lake. The lake itself was stunning. The road to the lake left something to be desired.First there was 30 miles off the highway to get to the turnoff for Crater Lake National Park, then the climb up to the lake on a narrow two lane road with a drop-off of several hundred feet. Not fun for me when I'm not on the "safe" side of the road.We did spend quite a bit of time going around the lake and stopping at every scenic spot there was. I found it a little awkward to breathe at that elevation (8200 feet) though, so we didn't rush around.
We were averaging about 104 degrees throughout the day and then had to leave the car for an hour in Shasta Lake to settle down from the vapor lock. The heat has been the only unpleasant part of this whole trip. Our high was 118.6 degrees about ten miles out of Redding, CA. Yikes! And that was at 6 pm so God only knows what it was earlier in the day.
Then we had to put some major miles in. We wanted to stop for the night somewhere around San Francisco so that our drive on Sunday would be 6-7 hours so we drove until 9 pm then collapsed in Dunnigan, CA.
Miles driven = 385.3.
August 17
Got up this morning to 68 degrees. Heaven! We reached San Francisco an hour later and saw people in the streets and wearing sweaters and light coats!It was 65 degrees - we felt like yelling hurrah!!!
Of course once we were on the 101 and going inland a bit it warmed up but no more than 80 degrees so it was a great travelling day.
Home Sweet Home at 8 pm.
Total miles this trip = 3,881.
2 comments:
Very nice. The blogging works well ... need to combine it with a map though. Either Maps & Streets or even Google maps would allow you to mark a point and embed the map in your blog.
But it sure is interesting reading about the trip.
Gerry
You're right - this would certainly do that with Google maps. Next time I'll have more experience to do it up that way.
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