The big event is over, and I head home

After the 3 car convoy headed away from Rooster Rock State Park, Jeffery and I spent a few more moments there, and then headed to one more vista point before going back to our Hotel via the Olive Garden for soup and salad.  The next day, I put Jeffery on the plane, and started back to California.

Rooster Rock

The sun came out for just a few moments!

zoom up to Rooster Rock and View House

the Tram in Portland, which carries people over the city and Highway 5's busy traffic

sign near the Tram and rail-line

Sunset

the Tram in its night dock

The next morning, before I took Jeffery back to PDX, we drove by the Mormon Church, because we'd seen it shining in the sunlight along our route, but never checked it out up close.

I've dropped Jeffery off, and am back on the road again

same bridge as on the way up, but now I know that it's in Eugene, OR

rest stop view

another pretty farm nestled in its own little vale

sign at one of the rest area

afternoon light as I get closer to my overnight in Medford

logging truck

Applegate Museum, which was closed

covered bridge right near the Applegate Museum

information re: the bridge

it's a sign of things to come.  I didn't go that way

the covered bridge from the side

instructions and information on the T in the road

damn was I full after a salad, a corn muffin, and this milkshake.  ooh, it was almost awful, I was so full

The next morning I saw this in Phoenix Oregon

The Camelot Theater in Talent, OR

Pretty trees and chalk decorated road in front of the Talent City Hall

mural

another very dear mural

coming into Ashland

downtown Ashland view

I drove way up the hill to see if there was a view of Ashland below.  This was the best I found

I did find this sign, which made me feel right at home

Entering California, which is where Mt. Shasta is first spotted, if it's not cloudy, as it is here.  The sign you read as you leave Oregon says "Oregon Thanks You. Come Back Soon".

stopped at a rest area along the Klamath River

Information

the Klamath River

how to get back on the Highway

We vote on whether to make the State of Jefferson into the 51st U.S. State.  Heaven help us if the loonies succeed.

At the Weed rest stop, it was ferociously windy

beautiful Mt. Shasta with a cloud cap on.  Good thing I had a sunny trip up to Oregon.  The return was much less photogenic.

at the Shasta City Headstart, near the high school, with Mt. Shasta in the background

you can see Castle Crags from over the Shasta City Elementary School.

Castle Crags

actually pulled off along the highway, which when there is a lot of trucks running is probably very uncool to do, if not actually a risk

Castle Crags from the windy road around it's base.

super-size hay load

back past Lake Shasta

down into the dry valley approaching Red Bluff, before the orchards and buttes

I just love this little "blink and you've missed it", because it has Julia's Farm Stand

at Julia's, I got two different colored pumpkins

I've gone by Chico and am headed up toward home

up over Jarbo Gap, and once more into the breach!  Ahhh.

There, I'm home.  That was four days ago.  I've cleaned house for Jeffery's return, and now he's home, so I will have some more doin's to report soon.