Off To Oregon!

By the time you read this, we should be headed out of Marin and on our way north to Oregon.  Today's leg of the trip will be relatively short:  By mid-afternoon or so we'll arrive in McCloud at the foot of Mount Shasta for an overnight stay at the historic hotel that used to be owned and operated by the local timber company.  The lumber mill is long-gone, but some commercial buildings and several homes dating from the logging days remain in this quiet little hamlet.

After breakfast Tuesday morning we'll point Cindy's CR-V north, follow I-5 up to Weed, then veer northeast onto U.S. 97 and travel across the high desert plateau and enter Oregon at Klamath Falls.  Our route will take us just east of Crater Lake National Park and along the eastern edge of the Cascade Mountain Range.

After passing Bend we'll swing northwest, go through Sisters, and reach the Metolious River Resort at Camp Sherman where we'll bunk in a cabin for four nights and spend the next three days touring the volcanic landscape and mountains of Central Oregon.

Then it's west over the mountains to Eugene for a two day visit with friends who moved there from San Francisco, and finally south to Ashland for a five-night stay to catch some plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival before returning home.