Day 28 Reno NV to Red Bluff CA
No, we didn't drive over to San Francisco. These are the real fruits and nuts!
We left the campground and backtracked a little to the east side of Reno to get an oil change that Jim had made an appointment for two days ago. The appt. was for 10:30, we got there at 10:00 and the guy said they could do it around three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Um...I guess the word *appointment* means something different in Reno than it does in Charleston. The steam was coming out of Jim's ears (those who know him can picture this) as he told the RV service guy what he could do with his appointment schedule.
So....we headed for I80 west toward California. As soon as we hit the California line the highway deteriorated badly. Real badly. The surface was grooved, rutted and potholed worse than the Rhode Island roads after a spring thaw...and that's bad!
We were bouncing, rocking and shaking for quite a long way. There's a massive construction project (not a minute too soon) going on in the area of Donner's Pass. Of course, I filled Jim in on the Donner Party.
We started getting hungry and weary of the interstate just a little northwest of Sacramento. We pulled off the highway in a pretty town, Rocklin. Parked in a Safeway parking lot, went in and bought some lunch meat and milk. I looked in the cheese area and the Laughing Cow Light that I get at home for $2.50 or $2.99 was $5.39!
From there we decided that we'd had enough highway driving and took US 65 northwest up through the Sacramento Valley to Yuba City. Then we got on US99 which travels through most of California, north/south, in the valley. We stayed on this until Red Bluff where we are tonight, in perhaps, the nicest camping area of the trip so far. It's an urban area, but beautifully landscaped, immaculate and quiet.
Most of the country is unaware of the magnitude of this area in the field of agriculture. You can drive for an entire day through massive fields of every vegetable you can think of and orchards stretching for miles. We are at the northern end, nearing the mountains around Shasta, and the crops here include almonds, walnuts, peaches, plums and I read kiwi. Hence the title of today's blog...
We passed several fresh strawberry stands but had no room to pull off...hopefully tomorrow. Fresh picked strawberries are so different from what we get at the supermarket. Fresh is to die for...my dad grew them and we had to fight the birds for the tender, sweet, juicy delights.
Remember what I said about bumpy roads and opening the refrigerator in an earlier post? Well, we got a macabre looking surprise when we stopped for lunch. Apparently Jim's big bottle of Red Hot Sauce tipped over and lost it's cap. With every jostle it must have spurted red sauce all over the refrigerator. I almost screamed when I looked inside...It looked like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator!
We arrived here late afternoon. Jim washed the RV and Jeep....after the dust storms and bugs, it really needed it. And I took the refrigerator apart and cleaned it, damn hot sauce stains too! I should have snapped a picture, it was pretty funny.
Dinner was surf and turf...fillet mignon, shrimp , sweet potato, sugar snap peas and peach mango applesauce. Jim grilled the steak and shrimp.
I'm going to try to upload some pics...very few today. This connection is extremely slow. The photo of the Jeep hook up if for my granddaughter, who was wondering about it.
No, we didn't drive over to San Francisco. These are the real fruits and nuts!
We left the campground and backtracked a little to the east side of Reno to get an oil change that Jim had made an appointment for two days ago. The appt. was for 10:30, we got there at 10:00 and the guy said they could do it around three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Um...I guess the word *appointment* means something different in Reno than it does in Charleston. The steam was coming out of Jim's ears (those who know him can picture this) as he told the RV service guy what he could do with his appointment schedule.
So....we headed for I80 west toward California. As soon as we hit the California line the highway deteriorated badly. Real badly. The surface was grooved, rutted and potholed worse than the Rhode Island roads after a spring thaw...and that's bad!
We were bouncing, rocking and shaking for quite a long way. There's a massive construction project (not a minute too soon) going on in the area of Donner's Pass. Of course, I filled Jim in on the Donner Party.
We started getting hungry and weary of the interstate just a little northwest of Sacramento. We pulled off the highway in a pretty town, Rocklin. Parked in a Safeway parking lot, went in and bought some lunch meat and milk. I looked in the cheese area and the Laughing Cow Light that I get at home for $2.50 or $2.99 was $5.39!
From there we decided that we'd had enough highway driving and took US 65 northwest up through the Sacramento Valley to Yuba City. Then we got on US99 which travels through most of California, north/south, in the valley. We stayed on this until Red Bluff where we are tonight, in perhaps, the nicest camping area of the trip so far. It's an urban area, but beautifully landscaped, immaculate and quiet.
Most of the country is unaware of the magnitude of this area in the field of agriculture. You can drive for an entire day through massive fields of every vegetable you can think of and orchards stretching for miles. We are at the northern end, nearing the mountains around Shasta, and the crops here include almonds, walnuts, peaches, plums and I read kiwi. Hence the title of today's blog...
We passed several fresh strawberry stands but had no room to pull off...hopefully tomorrow. Fresh picked strawberries are so different from what we get at the supermarket. Fresh is to die for...my dad grew them and we had to fight the birds for the tender, sweet, juicy delights.
Remember what I said about bumpy roads and opening the refrigerator in an earlier post? Well, we got a macabre looking surprise when we stopped for lunch. Apparently Jim's big bottle of Red Hot Sauce tipped over and lost it's cap. With every jostle it must have spurted red sauce all over the refrigerator. I almost screamed when I looked inside...It looked like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator!
We arrived here late afternoon. Jim washed the RV and Jeep....after the dust storms and bugs, it really needed it. And I took the refrigerator apart and cleaned it, damn hot sauce stains too! I should have snapped a picture, it was pretty funny.
Dinner was surf and turf...fillet mignon, shrimp , sweet potato, sugar snap peas and peach mango applesauce. Jim grilled the steak and shrimp.
I'm going to try to upload some pics...very few today. This connection is extremely slow. The photo of the Jeep hook up if for my granddaughter, who was wondering about it.
Tomorrow we're going up to the Mt. Shasta area. Another place that we've never been. Have to post more mountain photos for my daughter in law...
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