Saturday, November 20, 2010

Trip to Turlock - Wednesday, November 17, 2010


This is the last day of my eight day trip to Turlock/Yosemite. I had to scrape the ice off my car windows. I ate a bacon-egg-and cheese biscuit and small orange juice at 7:30AM at Yreka. I stayed the night in Yreka as I did want to go over the Siskiyou in the dark. It turned out that I might as well have gone anyway. The fog was so thick I could only see a couple hundred feet. I found a red car to follow until the fog cleared. I stopped at Harry & David in Medford to purchase some gifts. I found two caches near the Valley of the Rogue State Park: Watch Your Step and [Our] Lady of the River. I ate tendercrisp chicken sandwich, diet coke and apple pie for lunch at Burger King in Grants Pass about 12:15PM.

I stopped for an hour at the Seven Feathers Casino. I did not play any of my money. Walking around watching the players and looking at the machines reaffirmed my belief that Indian Casinos are only profitable for the casino not the patrons. It was windy and dark by the time that I reached Eugene. Soon there was torrential rains and flooding. I got home about 7:30PM and unloaded the car in the pouring rain. There were television broadcasts of Urban Flood Warnings until 9:00/9:30PM.

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