Rex and Nancy's Travels - "ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST" - JRR Tolkein

We left Childs Meadow Resort on Sunday morning, August 31 st and drove to Truckee, CA.   We are camped at Granite Flat, a forest service campground on the Truckee River.   This is a typical forest service campground with a few sites long enough for our rig.   It is a long narrow campground between the river and the highway – which happens to be a very busy highway so we get a lot of highway noise. After we got settled and had lunch we drove into Truckee and visited their Visitor Center and found a great ice cream shop. Monday, August 1 st , we went to Donner Memorial State Park and stopped at the memorial to the emigrants who traveled the California Trail This is the area where the ill-fated Donner party was snowed in during the winter of 1846-47.   When they arrived here in early November, snow on Donner Pass was over 27 feet deep forcing them to stop and winter here.   Before they were rescued on April 7 th , 42 of the 89 members in the party perished –...

We left Tulelake on Wednesday morning and headed south towards Lassen Volcanic National Park.  Now that we are in California we can tow the Jeep behind the 5 th wheel – it is nice to travel in the same vehicle again!  We drove by 14,162 ft. Mt. Shasta – another of our beautiful mountains.  Mt. Shasta has 5 glaciers and its most recent eruption occurred in 1786. We stopped at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park to see Burney Falls.  The Falls cascades 129 ft. over a cliff into a pool that is 22 ft. deep.  We ate lunch here and hiked down to the base of the waterfall.  Another spectacular falls – we have seen so many beautiful waterfalls this trip that we can’t pick our favorite! Our campground is on the other side of Lassen Volcanic National Park so we drove through the park.  The ranger at the entrance station suggested that we unhitch the Jeep and drive it separately as the road is very curvy.  The 29 mile road starts at the north...

Monday morning, July 25 th , we left Prospect, OR and headed south towards California.  We stopped just across the state line at Tulelake, CA and are camped at the Tulelake Butte Valley Fair Grounds.  We have a very nice site on the grass and under a great shade tree.  The sites are narrow but there are currently only two rigs here so we can spread out.  Now that we are no longer in Oregon, Rex is going to miss having someone else pump our gas.  In Oregon it is against the law to pump your own gas and Rex enjoyed letting someone else do the pumping.  Camille and Cody enjoying the grass and shade. Tuesday we drove to Lava Beds National Monument just south of Tulelake.  Lava Bed National Monument lies on the northern flank of the massive Medicine Lake volcano.  Medicine Lake is a shield volcano and last erupted about 1,100 years ago. We stopped at Petroglyph Point where there are hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs along a cl...