South,
coffee
in
Albany,
through
the
Willamette
Valley,
close
against
the
foothill
buttes
of
the
Cascades,
into
Pass Creek
and
the
Umpquah River
Basin
the
world
growing
more
Californianesque,
up, down, up,
down, up,
down,
up,
down --
an
extended
time
by
the
Rogue
River
both at the
city's park
and the
State
Wayside --
Mt. Mcloughlin,
Table Mountains,
highrisers of
Medford,
Ashland
for a
Mexican lunch,
up
the
Grade
and
over
to
the
Promised
Land,
God's
summer-
toasted
country,
Anderson
Summit,
Shasta
Valley,
Yreka...
Mt.
Shasta,
the
Cascades,
Black
Butte,
and the
Klamaths
looming towards
Weed
(for a
supply stop),
then over
the last
summit and
down past
Castle Crags,
to the
Lake and
Central
Valley,
Red Bluff,
Glenn
and
Colusa,
Yolo's
Zamora
Hill,
Rocky
Ridge
Vaca
and
Lagoon
Mountains... heat, home.
High at the start: 78 - finish: 97, 126th day of summer (68 days 80+, 38 90-or-beyond), producing the instrumental parts to Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232: XLV. 1923 - Ernst Krenek, Oskar Kokoschka...
