Oh yeah...

Don't tell Culbreath, but we passed through his neck of the woods again, without stopping. This time, as we were rushing North to get to Redding in time, Melanie asked, "doesn't your friend live around here?"

"Yeah, and everytime he reads on the blog that I passed through, once again, I catch it."

Next time, Jeff, I promise. We would have stopped today, but with this storm bearing down on us we were anxious to get back home.

It really is a lovely part of the world, though.

One last thing, before I get back to fiddling with the receiver:

If you live in Northern California, you owe it to yourself to head out to one of the salmon/steelhead runs just to look at the big fishies. Watching a four foot monster swim up rapids is breathtaking.

The Coleman National Fish Hatchery is one of our favorite spots, but you can catch the action closer to civilization at the Nimbus Fitch Hatchery, too.