Start: Fresno
Destination: Redding
Car Mileage: 334 miles
Today is a driving day with time to meet a couple of friends. I got up around 6:30, and inquired about lightning from yesterday-none. Then went for a short walk before having breakfast. Sherri is up earlier than I expected, but is still getting packed. I was aiming for a loose 9:30 leave time and was ready about 9;30. We actually do leave about 10:50 for our first adventure to Oregon to see Andrea and Lawrence. Not sure how long we will be gone-between 7 and 9 days. I have a dentist appointment on the other end.
Sherri starts off the trip driving. This is a familiar trip with her. Our first stop will be to see our friends, Margaret and Joe in Turlock. We could not make it to Turlock for Margaret’s 70’s birthday because Sherri was still recovering from her surgery. In the meantime, Margaret has been hospitalized and got sent home recently. So there is added incentive to see them. We got there before 12:30, having brought lunch with us for them. We stay until 2:00pm with Sherri and Margaret catching up on life. The 2:00pm time to leave is the cue for Margaret to take her nap and for us to get on the road. Of course, I am missing my afternoon nap.
It is a bit hard to nap safely while I am driving. But Sherri manages to do that while we travel northward along 99. That is until we reach one of our favorite spots on earth, the Elk Grove Leatherby’s Ice Cream Parlor. We stop and order a peanut butter cup sundae between us, that is a peanut butter cream sundae with a brownie. Yummy. By this time it is after 4:00pm and we need to be on our way.
I cross over to I-5 and then just go up that. There are a few places where traffic slows down, but nothing really bad. It is clear sailing going up. We stop in Woodland for gas-should be the last time until we get Oregon gas, and its cheaper prices. Now the question is where do we stop? Sherri starts to look for places to stay around Redding, but they all seem a bit expensive.
We joined our Wednesday evening family Zoom call a bit late. Everybody is already on it. But we managed to get in. Fun driving along listening to the conversation. Rachel, who I think could get a job as a travel agent, helps us locate a hotel in Redding-the TraveLodge. About 30 minutes later, still on Zoom, we arrive and get into our room. Looks reasonable. We flop down on the bed and continue the conversation for another 15 minutes, before everyone signs off.
Now the question is, What to eat? In-N-Out sounds good, so we go there and grab a to-go meal and come back and eat in our room. We lay around for another hour and a half before calling it a night.
Background
TravelLodge-Redding. Reasonably priced, particularly when you look at the other establishments around there.. They only had one king sized bed left, a special needs room. So we took that one. The room was clean. How the hotel is situated, parking is surrounded by the hotel, so there is a feeling your vehicle will be secure. Our room was quiet and we were able to make it pretty dark. The next morning we had a very filling breakfast with choices of waffles, cereal, eggs, pastries and other items. The only negative to our stay was the mattress felt it had been well used, so the sides were significantly lower than the middle. But it was a good stay and we got a good night’s rest.
As a note: we liked our stay enough that a week later on our way back, we stopped in again. This time we got two queen beds. Everything was the same quality, except the mattresses on the queens were a lot more comfortable.
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