What a nice early morning farewell view of Mt. Shasta. It gave us a chance to see the other side as we drove a route different from the interstate. It was a nice change to see more rural country with small very rustic towns, forest and mountains, valley agriculture, follow the road along Klamath lake , and wind up back in the mountains and trees. We noticed a great deal of logging going on. The big log trucks were all up and down the highway. It was a relaxing 4 hour ride to our next destination.
We are camped at Diamond Lake RV Park. We will be here from the 21st and leave the 25th. We stayed here in June of 2004 and liked camping in the woods. It is a big park and looks like they have made several upgrades. However, many of the sites are very close together and we barely got our truck parked on our site in order to leave room for our neighbor’s truck. We have full hookups and can have a campfire so our wood is chopped and ready to go. Oops..a small thunderstorm rolled through so we will have to see if it passes in time to have a night fire. The park is right across the street from Diamond Lake. It is a small lake at the bottom of a mountain. There is a bike path all the way around the lake so we hope to take the trail again as we did in 2004.
I was excited to stay at this park because 10 years ago I spent many hours feeding the ground squirrels and chipmunks. I sat out in the lounge chair and they would run up my leg for a peanut. If I wasn’t fast enough, they would just run up my arm, pull the bag down, and help themselves! So I stocked up on peanuts the last few weeks because I knew what I would be doing with them! Sure enough, camera in hand, I started feeding them as soon as we got set up. It wasn’t long, like before, and they were eating out of my hand. So cute and I have such fun with them!
Of Course day 2 was more of the same!
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