Foiled again.......

 7:11 pm - Saturday - May 26th - LPG&RVR - 69° F, 46% humidity, wind 8 mph out of the west by southwest.....partly cloudy today with a forecast (passed) 73° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE was directing traffic at Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) at gate #2....one of our best seasonal gigs ever......↴

We were up before 5 am Friday morning in Burney, CA, and on our way covering the final leg to Redding, CA and A-1 Smog by 5:40 am.  The drive was uneventful, and we arrived at A-1 20 minutes before their 7 am opening with Starbucks coffees in our hands....

Mt. Shasta from the south on our way to Redding Thursday morning

....our car was the first car taken into the shop, and within 20 minutes we had passed the emissions test, but FAILED the visual test.  While our emissions was performing as it should, several emissions hoses, and a pump had visible cracks, and damage, so to pass we must get all that stuff replaced...doh! We arrived with no check engine lights, but were foiled by the visual inspection!  Instead of hanging around town all day, which we've done before, we asked Brent, the owner, to source the replacement parts, and call us when he had them ordered, and received.

Around 8 am we headed over to Trader Joe's to get our fix of things we only buy there, which includes potato vodka, and Finlaggan Single Malt Scotch, and a few other food items.  Apparently, while we were putting those items into the hatch of the VW we forgot to pull out the bag containing 4 bottles of the aforementioned Finlaggan, and 2 bottles of potato vodka, and left them in the cart (about $130 in value).....double doh!  That faux pas was not discovered until we got home Friday morning.....more on that later.

From there we headed to COSTCO, completely unaware of our mistake, to fuel up at $3.89/gallon, and then into the store at their opening, 9 am, to buy a few things we only get at COSTCO.  We did not leave anything in the cart that time....lol!

From there we headed north on I-5 to Weed, CA where we merged onto California Highway 97 to Klamath Falls, OR....

Mt. Shasta from the southwest off I-5

Mt. Shasta from the west

Mt. Shasta from the northwest

You've got to have at least one picture of Weed, CA, right?

Mt. Shasta from the east

.....once again the drive from Redding to Klamath Falls was uneventful, but extremely beautiful.

We arrived in Klamath Falls around 11:30 am, and headed directly to The Falls Taphouse for some more great brews, and for moi more BBQ.  TLE got The Octoberfest Hot Dog from the hot dog food truck.  For our brews TLE ordered their 'Blonde', and I their 'Amber Ale...both brews went well with our orders.  We sat outside this time, and the temperature was perfect....

....we lingered over our lunch enjoying the food, the ambiance, the conversation, and the view for over an hour.

We had reservations at the local Shilo Inn (across the street from The Falls Taphouse)...

....and there she is inside that red circle.

Before we checked into the Shilo Inn we had several errands to run, and began with a stop at Holiday Jewelers where I had left my Nixon watch the week before to have a new battery installed, and to fix one of the small hands, which had fallen off its post.  The watch was ready as promised....

The hand inside that red circle had fallen off its post

....next we picked up a few things at Walmart, then headed over to the local Goodwill where both TLE and I found a few things without which we could not live.

We checked into the Shilo Inn just before 3 pm.  We managed to get a room on the top floor (4th), and had a nice view of Klamath.  We played a bunch of Backgammon games of which I managed to win just 2 (I think we played 7, or 8)....it was just not my night....lol!

We were in bed by 10 pm, and slept like the dead....the bed had a pillowed mattress, and was of the California King variety......so comfortable.

Thanks for stopping by!