Sunday, July 28, 2013, Redding, CA

I was awake for several hours during the night.  When I finally got to sleep I stayed in bed quite late.  After coffee and computer catch up, we tuned into the worship service from the Oakey Blvd. Church of Christ via the internet.  There were some connection difficulties in the early parts of service.  It did stabilize just before the lesson.  Randy gave a great lesson on courage and being committed to Christ. The lesson also included the power of forgiveness and repentance.

In the early afternoon we all, us and the Kerslakes, loaded into the Jeep, destination Whiskeytown

Alice and Keith Kerslake

Whiskeytown Lake

The "Glory Hole" spillway at Whiskeytown Lake

Lake.  After wrangling with GPS's and phones, Gerri had the route locked in.  Whiskeytown Lake is a large body of water behind an earthen dam.  It is a fee area and my pass was in the motor home.  Keith bought his lifetime pass.  They used to call it the Golden Age pass, now it is called a Senior Citizen Pass.  I guess someone in the Park Service realized that life isn't ll that golden after 65.  When Gerri saw Keith's card she realized that she had bought one at Red Rock when her egg hunter friends visited in May.  This will work out well, never having to go back to the motor home for my card, Gerri will have hers.  These passes are good for entry fees and many types of federal parks and area.  They also get discounts on other services like camping.  Like I said it is an earthen dam.  Instead of an overflow ramp on the dam itself,  Whiskeytown Lake has a "Glory Hole."  We drove over the dam and went a little way before Gerri noticed that I had forgotten to put gas in the Jeep on Saturday.  The gauge read empty but the warning light had not come on.  I choose to go back to the nearest service station instead of seeing more lake and being stranded.  It was a nice drive and even though we only saw a small part of the lake it was worth the trip out from town.  Unlike many reservoirs Whiskeytown Lake doesn't have the white mark along the shoreline.  This lake is only for water storage, power and recreation, the water isn't released downstream for irrigation.

I did stop for one geocache after buying gas and heading home.

After gassing the Jeep we stopped at a road side stand and bought some peaches and cantaloupes.
We took the fruit pack to the RV Park and then left again to go to Bed Bath and Beyond.

Sundial Bridge

Sundial Bridge

Sundial Bridge

I looked up attractions on the GPS and the nearest was called Sundial Bridge.  No one had any idea what we were headed to see. Turns out that this is a 700 foot long bridge connecting the north and south units of the Turtle Bay Exploration Park and is part of Redding's Sacramento River trail system.

After seeing the bridge we did some shopping at a nearby shopping center.

Back at the park we visited some more before supper.  It was comfortable to sit outside in the shade.  We had appetizers, salmon dip  and crackers.  Keith grilled some rib eye steaks.  Gerri fixed a casserole, scalloped potatoes au gratin. Alice fixed her world famous Onion salad and some individual sized berry cobblers.

Gerri worked her egg game and I did a couple Sudoku puzzles and read some more of a book on my Kindle.  I'm am reading an interesting book by Lt. Co. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.  I went to bed early, calling it a day at about 9:45.