What a day! First we left Crater Lake this morning in mid-30s temperatures and by the time we arrived in Red Bluff, California, it had risen to 95 degrees.
As we were leaving Crater Lake I noticed a different light on our dashboard – not one I had seen before. The Toyota manual said it had something to do with tire pressure so that got me worried. I visually inspected all four tires and they looked fine. I stopped at a gas station at the Oregon/California border and checked all the tires with a pressure gauge. They were all fine. So later in the day, when we stopped in Redding, California, I asked the info center where a Toyota dealer was located, thinking I would stop there after we had lunch. Sure enough, after lunch the warning light no longer was lit up. What gives?
Also, the price of gasoline on the Oregon side of the border was up to $3.98 and the guy at the station said he was still cheaper than the gas stations in California so I filled up. Wrong! We found gasoline as low as $3.69. He lied or he didn’t know.
We had read that some of the roads around Lassen Volcanic National Park, which we intended to visit today, were closed earlier so Rita called the park to find out that the road through the park was indeed closed due to snow. So we changed our itinerary and bypassed the park. We may see how far the road is open on the south side tomorrow.
Then to top it all off, we stopped at a scenic viewing area to take photos of Mt. Shasta and the camera stopped working. I had noticed problems with it over the past week but this time I could not get the camera to power on. So we stopped in Redding at a Best Buy and purchased a new digital camera. Nothing too elaborate but a Samsung with higher zoom lens and more pixels than the old camera. We figured our old camera, which the girls gave us, was nearly ten years old and it took a lot of good photos. So now we are figuring out the new camera, how it works and how to download photos. Wish us luck - good luck!
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