Day 26 - 9/30 - Medford to Red Bluff for a Visit

Another travel day is in the books. Now it’s in the blog. Guess what? We started the day at an elevation of 1,098 feet and ended the day at an elevation of 350 feet. No, it was not down hill all the way. It was more up and down through the Cascades of southwestern Oregon into the northern part of California on I-5. We topped our highest peak of the day, Siskiyou Summit, at 4,310 feet. There were quite a few up and downs in addition to the pass.

We arrived at our destination of Red Bluff KOA by midafternoon. Our purpose for this stop was to visit with Gary and Rebecca Bovee. Gary is a friend of Byron’s through a GMC motorhome In fact, Gary and Byron collaborated on a popular publication within the GMC community; The Internet Idiot’s Guide to the GMC Motorhome. Gary wrote the material, Byron added many illustrations and laid it out in preparation for distribution as a PDF or in iBook format. 

Here we are with Gary and Rebecca in front of two, gigantic

Redwood trees. They were planted when he was a child

on the farm of his grandparents where he and his wife now live.

The upper third of one tree was blown out by a storm

and the same thing happened to another a few years later.

From the ground, it is impossible to see any sign of damage

since the trees are still nearly seventy feet high.

We had a lovely visit to Gary and Rebecca’s home which sits amid two acres of English Walnut trees. Rebecca presented us with a lovely gift box filled with almonds, English walnuts, pistachios, candied pecans, peaches, pears, pomegranate, tomatoes, honey, dried plums, and home-grown bay leaf. All these items are products of the Red Bluff area. In addition to all the goodies, she gave us a lovely vase of long-stemmed yellow mums. For many years, both Gary and Rebecca worked in different departments for county government.

After a nice dinner at a local restaurant, we returned to the campground for the evening. We're grateful to have met some “internet friends” on this trip and are glad to count them as friends.

Red Bluff KOA Journey is one of the nicer campgrounds

at which we have stayed on our journey. The sites

were spacious with concrete pads and asphalt streets.

Somewhere along the way we spotted this butte in the distance.

This was taken while in a dry valley. The area, between mountain ranges,

reminds us of the high desert of Wyoming.