Friday, Saturday, October 20 and 21 2022 Headed for home near Downieville CA.
Sunup
When I peeked out the van’s side window at sunup, this is what the creek looked like where the beaver had the water dammed up.
It was too chilly and early to get up, so back in bed for another hour.
This is the camp spot by Last Chance Creek.
It was chilly there so we got on the road earlier than we usually do. This road we took had some serious wash board and give the van’s a good shake up.
Most of the trees in this area are dead from a recent forest fire.
We dropped down out of the forest into this big meadow area and almost off the washboard and onto pavement.
Pavement starts here
The sign said pavement ends here which for us meant the wash board stops and the pavement begins.
We stopped here for a break and to make plans where to look for a camp spot on the way towards home. We’d need to find a camp spot for tonight as we didn’t want to travel home today as it would be a long drive.
Big cracks
It turned out the pavement was almost as bad as the washboard as the pavement had these big cracks across the road all the way until we chanced roads.
Eventually we got on highway 49 which was a good highway with very little traffic on it. We could travel our preferred slower speed and not have a a bunch of cars pushing you down the road.
Downieville
Marty was getting low on gas for his heater so we stopped to see if he could find any small tanks here. No luck. We’ve moved down in elevation so it should be warmer tonight.
We got back on the road and continued on down 49, turning off at Marysville road where we hoped to find a decent camp spot for the night.
Finding a camp spot
We’d just crossed the New Bullard’s Bar Reservoir dam when I saw a spot to pull over to on the side of the road to let a truck pass that had been following us. Since we were stopped I said let’s take a break for a bit and got out our chairs. While sitting there I noticed a small dirt road taking off from this pull over spot and said to Marty, I need to check out that little road there as it looks promising for a camp spot.
Eventually I got out of my chair and walked down that road and found it good enough for tonight’s camp spot.
We pulled on into the dead-end road and made camp for the night.
Plans
Tomorrow we have four hours or so driving to make it on home.
Nice day.
October 21, Going Home
We woke here this morning and slowly got it going for the day as we only had around 5 hours to drive to get home.
We stopped here for a break in a wild bird refuge for a much needed break before doing the last leg home.
Not too far from home traffic came to a complete stop and it was stop and go for a few miles. Turned out they were putting in new guard rails and really screwing up the traffic on a Saturday. There was also a lot of traffic so from now on, no traveling home on a Saturday, only Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Leaving on a Sunday is good as most people are headed for home which opens the way when going from home.
Yucky backed up traffic from road work.
We made it home ok. I started to unload some of the stuff I needed in the house and then took it easy.
Such pretty country. I always stay parked on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday isn’t bad usually, but weekdays are best. That was a great trip you took us on!!
Glad you are home safe and sound. Thanks for taking us along.
I had no idea you could go so far on unpaved roads.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Been a wonderful journey to places as yet unseen. Though I wouldn’t take my set up on most of those roads. Welcome home.
Such pretty country. I always stay parked on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday isn’t bad usually, but weekdays are best. That was a great trip you took us on!!
What a wonderful trip. Some very nice views. I love the campsites, quiet and peaceful. Welcome home.
Glad you are home safe and sound. Thanks for taking us along.
I had no idea you could go so far on unpaved roads.