Here’s our campsite in the Gold Country in California! Out our window is the South Fork of the American River. Those are class II rapids and we often see kayaks and rafts cruising down the river and over the rapids. Others are at the river’s edge panning gold. We’ll be here about 10 days.
On our way here, we met Eloise’s Niece Loretta Pesetski in Truckee, CA. We had a leisurely lunch at a Chinese restaurant and enjoyed catching up on events.
Above and below poor Eloise has been ‘stickered’ on our way to a geocache. It’s a small price to pay for being in the forest, but those stickers can really hurt!
You can see one of the kayaks trying to go upstream. We can’t figure why he was trying to do that, but he didn’t make it!!
Saw this turkey while we were out geocaching.
Not too far from our camp is Georgetown. We were looking for a place to get a bite to eat and walked past this remarkable hotel in this small time backwater town. Just up the street we found a BBQ place for lunch, and we each took half our plates home. Delicious. We don’t eat meat much anymore, so it was doubly great!
On Monday we drove across the 4th highest bridge in the US, the Auburn/Foresthill bridge, and the highest in California. Opened in 1973, it’s 730 feet above the river. Until 2010 it was the 3rd highest, until the Hoover Dam new bridge was completed near Las Vegas. So in order, the highest is the Royal Gorge in CO, 2d is the Hoover, 3d is in W. VA, and now 4th is the Auburn. They were doing some maintenance on it when we went over it, and we don’t have pictures.
Bottom photo is the geocache in its normal position. Center is how the film canister is nestled in the fake rock, and top picture is one of us signing the log. This cache was right at the entrance to Old Town Auburn. We found several around this area, and several we did not find, which I don’t want to talk about.
This was the scene from our site all weekend long. So many rafts and kayaks you couldn’t count them!! It was fun just watching! That’s it for here, next post will be about 2 weeks from now at Oregon House, CA…See ya!
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