Happy Trails with Mike & Ellen Taylor

Hi all! The picture above (which we didn't take) is of the Sundial Bridge--a really cool pedestrian bridge over the Sacramento River in Redding, CA. We walked the dogs over this bridge and on the really nice trails along the river several times while in Redding. There were mountains all around us, most notably Mt. Shasta. We were there for almost a week waiting for some mail to catch up with us, and so I could at least get our taxes to the point of filing an extension! The RV park we stayed at was on the Sacramento River, beautifully landscaped with good cable and wifi. We don't have any new pictures to post because we really didn't do anything significant other than the mentioned administrative things, as well as grocery shopping, laundry and a haircut. Didn't want to take a picture of Mike's latest prison cut!

We've had a couple of rainy days but overall we've been enjoying beautiful spring weather. We've worked really hard at avoiding winter weather as we've moved north in California. Yesterday we finally left California and drove to Reno, NV, working our way toward Salt Lake City, where Ellen will fly home for a visit next week. It was a beautiful drive (until we got out of the mountains and into the dry lakes and desert again) and sunny and 75. Imagine our surprise when we watched the evening news last night and they said that today we would be under a winter weather advisory! Right now it is about 31 and snowing hard and blowing. We may have to stay here an extra night just to ride out this storm and the poor road conditions. Lows are forecast to be in the mid-20's the next couple of nights :(. This presents problems with frozen outside water lines. We thought about back-tracking down I-80 to the Sacramento area where it is sunny and warm, but there is a wind advisory along I-80 for high profile vehicles (like ours) so I guess we will just hunker down and ride it out. The forcasted snow "showers" seem pretty hard to us, but hopefully it won't get too bad.

More to come!