After three months of staying home, we couldn't stand it any more and fired up the motorhome and went bye-bye! The excuse was that the motorhome systems needed to be exercised after the long rest, so we combined that with a combination of Donna's Birthday and our wedding anniversary (54 years, I might add!) and came up with a trip to Redding.
We've been through Redding any number of times, it being one of the major cities on I-5, north and south through California (or to borrow a phrase: Taxifornia). So, two hundred miles north we found the Premier RV Resort. In a previous life this was a KOA from the look of the buildings and the narrow roads. However, the roads are paved, and, depending on the rv, at least part of the campsite is concrete. Nessie just barely made it onto the concrete, which left the tow car an a sloped approach to the site. Site 105 was nice, and on a warm summer day would be an extraordinary place to sit in the shade of the tree. There is a nice grass area with a patio table and some very bumpy paver bricks. The electrical connection is a bit worn from so many rv's hooking up that it took a few tries and a couple of good smacks to make it work, but all in all it's a nice park.
Redding's claim to fame is the Sundial Bridge across the Sacramento River. It was beginning to rain the first afternoon we were in town, but we wanted to see the bridge and take a bit of a walk through the adjacent park. Donna and Sasha were a bit tentative about waking on the glass surface!
For some insane reason, the next day we decided to drive to the northern coast of California and visit the quaint little town of Eureka. The drive penciled out at 159 miles to Eureka. Dumb. I didn't think about having to return.....
The drive on highway 299 was nice, but with a lot of traffic. After three hours of driving, we arrived and started looking for a restaurant with clam chowder. What else? Yelp led us to three local restaurants known for their seafood, and every one of them was closed! We did get a nice look at town. It had been more than thirty years since we visited, but guess what....It's just about the same, including the famous Ingomar Club, which was at one time a lumber baron's home.
We eventually found a barbecue restaurant that was recommended by a couple of the local police officers, and chowed down a couple of sandwiches from the Porter Street BBQ. Good stuff! Donna ordered her usual pulled pork, without a bun, and I had a Heart Attack. No, the sandwich, not the event. It included a hot link on a bun, covered to the top with smoked tri tip! I made it last for two meals. More on that later.
As you may know, we go to great lengths to avoid traveling on the same roads twice, so leading Eureka we drove south on US 101 to CA 36 and turned east. This picturesque road winds through stands of California Redwood trees and mountain passes. It's a scenic drive, but should be done early in the day.
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