September 12 -- The Road Trip Begins
Today we drove several hours to leave California, cross Oregon entirely and reached Vancouver, Washington. After leaving home at 6:30 AM, we pulled into our Hilton hotel at 5:30 PM. Highlights of our trip included: 1. Shasta Lake. This is one of California’s two largest reservoirs and a destination for boating enthusiasts as well. Interstate Highway 5 took us over the reservoir and gave us a few nice views. The water looked pretty blue, but the reservoir was not full. That might just be a reflection of this time of year, not an indication of drought. 2. Next we saw a rock formation called Castle Crag, which is also a California State Park. My photo is not so great, but here it is: 3. Then we began to see Mount Shasta, a giant volcano, peaking out over the trees. We learned last week that our volcanoes in the Pacafic Northwest are not well monitored (as they are in Japan), so even though we have the techn...