Southern Oregon to Bay Area

Lizzy Adventure Album at:

September 21-November 12, 2019

Overview

Our “Official” start to Life with Lizzy, was a looong, fall trip. We meandered from Southern Oregon into Northern California, over to Lake Tahoe and then back to California’s Bay Area, staying at 8 places along the way:

• Eola Hills Legacy Winery, Salem, OR, our 1st Harvest Host
• Valley of the Rogue State Park, OR
• Klamath Falls, Oregon
• Manzanita Lake Campground, Lassen Volcano National Park, for a week!
• Zephyr Cove, Nevada, on Lake Tahoe, for a week, 3 days with cousin Debbie
• Six Sigma Ranch, Vineyard & Winery Lower Lake, CA, our 2nd Harvest Host
• Petaluma, CA, North Bay Area, longest stay-18 days, many day trips to San Francisco and surrounds
• Morgan Hill, CA, where we stayed in Jan’s Driveway, and prepped Lizzy for a 2 month stay

Highlights

Along the way we visited some friends and family:

• Dinner in Redding with Roberta & Norman
• Hiking, lunch & more hiking around Lassen Volcanic with Roberta
• 3 days with Mark’s cousin Debbie-S around Lake Tahoe
• Dinner with Gail’s cousin Brendan in San Francisco
• Several days staying with Gail’s RPI ex-roommate Jan-J on the ranch.

We enjoyed our first stops at Harvest Host Sites. We made our 1st Airstreaming friends in Lassen, John&Ellen-S, whom we saw again around Tahoe. We experienced the effects of the PG&E Power Shutdown and the Kincaid Fire, from Lassen and Petaluma. We walked across the Golden Gate Bridge 6 times!

We got in one more State Capitol Tour (#6) – Carson City, Nevada

We spent 24 days visiting 14 National Park Sites

The first was our last (4th of 4) in Oregon, the rest are in California

• Oregon Caves National Monument (#152)
• One of the WWII Japanese Interment Sites:
  • Tule Lake National Monument (#153)
• Lava Beds National Monument (#154)
• Lassen Volcanic National Park (#155)
• Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (#156)
• Point Reyes National Seashore (#157)
• Golden Gate Area National Parks (for 4 Sites)
  • Golden Gate National Recreation Area (#7-Revisited)
  • San Francisco National Maritime Museum (#158)
  • Fort Point National Historic Site (#163)
  • Muir Woods National Monument (#164)
• Two of the Artists, Authors, Architects & Environmentalists
  • John Muir National Historic Site (#159)
  • Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site (#161)
• Two of the WWII Memorials / Historical Parks
  • Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial (#160)
  • Rosie the Riveter/WWII Homefront National Historic Park (#162)

Which included a dam & a lighthouse:

Oh…and note, we’ve now boated on our 4th of the 5 Deepest US Lakes…Lake Tahoe, the 2nd Deepest, at 1,645 feet.