July 23, 2013, Redding, CA

We were up early enough to have had our coffee and check everything out on the internet and still got on the road by a little after nine.  Our route was CA-120 a short distance to I-5 and then north to Redding.

The road was smooth but the scenery wasn't remarkable.  There is a lot of flat land out here.  There does seem to be a lot of run down junkie places along the highway.

For lunch we stopped at a Travel America Plaza and bought foot long tuna subs for lunch.

We arrived at the Redding Premier RV Resort at about 2:30 having traveled 237 miles.  We were assigned site 101, a long pull through with a concrete pad for the RV.  Even though Redding is in some foothills the elevation is 675' as compared with 16' at Manteca, it is even hotter here.  I worked up quite a sweat getting everything hooked up.  It was several hours before I cooled off.  I don't know about everyone's RV but it seems the air conditioning units on ours don't come on till you are sweating and don't go off until you are chilled.  It seems to take frequent adjustment to stay comfortable.

After the sun went down I took a walk around the area of the park where we are set up, it was still hot out.  I'll will have to see the rest of the RV park later, but the section we are in had roomy sites laid out very nicely.  Even though the hook ups for our site are on the door side of the next site there are plantings that screen them from sight, so if you are outside you aren't looking at the neighbor's sewer line.

Gerri contacted our friend Alice Kerslake and they will be here Saturday after staying at their son's ranch not too far from here.  We plan on seeing them tomorrow night.

It was a good day, smooth road and easy drive.  Since we both had eaten a foot log sub in mid-afternoon, we didn't didn't bother with supper.