Today we drove through the Redwood National Park and stopped to have our picture made with Paul Bunyon and Babe. A nice couple agreed to take our picture if we reciprocated. Of course we did! We went in the gift shop and snagged a couple of tee shirts and a pin for my hat! Our goal today was to wind our way from McKinleyville, CA, which is on the coast, to Redding, CA where we will spend tonight and tomorrow night. The highway, CA 299, was a roller coaster ride through the Salmon Mountains, over Trinity River, Big French Creek and the Shasta-Trinity National Park. We were able to stop and get out to photograph the Whiskeytown reservoir. What a glorious albeit, slow ride. There was lots of construction going on a various points along the way and the most terrifying was the cleanup of a tremendous rock slide. The road was one lane and it was obvious that it had occurred not long before we got to that point. Tons of rocks were being held back by sturdy concrete barriers. Eeek! I am going to digress a bit here. There is a $1,000 fine posed in CA for littering, but hey, in Oregon, by George, you better not litter because the fine is $6,250!!! I wonder how they came up with that exact figure??? We don't litter and haven't since being teenagers and I am not sure that John Garner has ever littered in his life. He hasn't broken any law or rule in his entire life. I think it has to do with his mother, who was a force to be reckoned with!!! We are settled in our home away from home, the HI Express in Red Bluff, CA. Tomorrow we are going to visit the Lassen Volcanic National Park which is a day trip for us and then back here for a good nights rest and prepare for our trip to Sacramento, CA to spend the weekend with the California Nixes, Joe, Linda, their three sons and their significant others, Joe and Carolina Nix, Andy Nix and Jesse Nix, with his fiance Samantha Waller, who will be Samantha Nix as of next summer! Joe and Linda are planning on having a cook-out to welcome us to their home and also to celebrate Andy's birthday. We are so looking forward to this visit and we are going to stay the whole weekend as Joe has golf planned for Sunday. Yippee!! I think I covered all of our adventure up to now. Enjoy the pictures!