Writing this update on the drive to Redwood National Forest.
Left Sequoia National Park today and headed for Redwood National Park. It’s over 400 miles so I decided we wouldn’t take the longer more scenic route. Ronda did some travel consulting today and found out no campsites were available in the vicinity of the park. I guess it would have been just as bad in Yosemite, so I’ll take that as a good call. We’re staying in Red Bluff at an RV Park Resort. RV Park and Resort should be anonyms. I guess we’ll find out when we get there. I’ve been really surprised by how much agriculture there is. In Texas most of the agriculture you see along the road is stuff cows eat. We must have passed by millions of orange trees and at least that many grape orchards. Actually I don’t have a clue when you call something an orchard or a grove. Someone please comment. Every one of these is drip irrigated. Sometimes the orchards are on both sides of the road. You can see this requires a major investment.
California really likes to line their roadways with oleanders. They grow to be like giant hedges. I guess that’s better than the concrete barriers we like to use.
We passed by a ship channel that really seemed out of place. Huge ships parked (moored?) there. I figured that’s how we get California fruit to other countries. Didn't get a picture of that.
An irritating law here in California is that all vehicles towing trailers and truck have a speed limit of 55 MPH. That’s even if the speed limit for all others is 70 MPH. So we crawled all day today. What’s even more irritating is that we only passed up only two vehicles all day. So I guess it’s a speed limit in theory but not in practice. Never saw a highway patrol either. For a state that’s broke, they sure could get a lot of revenue from speeding tickets.
Looks like the resort really is a resort!
1 comment:
Well of course it is, I booked it for you! I took pity on Keith ;-)
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