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| Long time friends Jan & Frank outside their Gold Beach home |
We left Gold Beach early so we could arrive in Redding in time to sign the lease for our apartment, and receive the keys. It would be a long three-day weekend without those keys!
The drive along the California coast began to reveal taller trees until we were rolling through groves of immense trees. The Redwood Highway was built to conserve as many trees on the right of way as possible. In some places, trees grew within a foot of the asphalt road surface. Fog rolled off the Pacific and wisped through the verdant branches of trees far older than the American republic.
Our wheels had mostly been pointing southward near the west edge of the continent for the past few days. At Arcata, we turned them east and entered the Klamath Mountains. The scenery was impressive but Highway 299 is a windy road, and not very fast, just as Frank warned.
The temperature climbed as we headed east. When we left the coast it was 59F (15C), by the time we were most of the way through the mountains, it was around 86F (30C)
In the 9 days before classes start we will be finding the pieces we need to tailor our apartment to us....starting with a bed. It's empty now except for what we brought along and the boxes that Katie mailed to us.
We're here!
Enroute to Redding - August 18 & 19, 2012
Enroute to Redding - August 20 & 21, 2012
Enroute to Redding - August 22, 2012
Enroute to Redding - August 23 & 24, 2012
Enroute to Redding - August 25, 26 and 27, 2012
Enroute to Redding - August 28, 29, 30 & 31, 2012
Enroute to Redding - September 1, 2012
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| Enroute to Redding |
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