July 11 - Far Flung
Off to one of the local post offices early,
mailing two year's worth of federal and state taxes
(the powers that be never seem to mind holding onto refunds as interest-free loans),
then
north
on
505
through Yolo,
followed
by
5
on
beyond Colusa,
Glenn,
Tehama,
Shasta
(Redding,
Mountain
Gate,
the Lake,
Gray Rocks,
Sacramento River Canyon,
Castle Crags),
and
Siskiyou
(Black Butte,
Weed,
Shasta
Valley,
Hole in the
Ground,
Yreka,
Mount
Shasta,
Anderson
Grade,
Klamath River
Canyon,
Henly,
Hornbrook,
Hilt) to the Oregon border.
Anon,
it's
Jackson
(supply
stop
in
Ashland,
then down
Bear Creek Valley to
Table
Rocks),
Josephine
(Grants Pass,
Sexton
Mountain,
Sunny Valley,
Smith Hill,
Stage Road Pass),
Douglas
(California Ridge,
South Umpqua Valley,
stops
in
Roseberg
and
Rice
Hill),
Lane
(Willamette Valley),
Lynn
(Cascade
and
Coast
Ranges),
Washington Counties to further adventures... 122 day of summer, high 93 (65 days 80+, 34 90-or-better) -- 79 Ashland, 75 Tigard...
producing the instrumental parts for Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfe, Op. 232l: XLI. Die Alma Puppe...