This post will have more pictures, I promise.  I don’t know why I have not taken more photos but I was more attentive today.

This was a day to do some Redding stuff.  I lived here from 1971-1980 and Roxie lived in some towns just south for about the same time.  Since it was Sunday Roxie went with her friend Gail to church.  I would have gone with them but my blog was having some issues.  REALLY!  I would have gone.  But I spent 2 hours in Burger King working on it.  Got it fixed and I will have a separate blog entry describing it.  After church we had a nice lunch at a local ‘hip’ sandwich shop, The Best Little Sandwich Shop.  It was very good!  Shortly after lunch we had to get Gail back to her home as she had a prior engagement.

Off to a bike ride!  Yes we are nuts to go on a bike ride in Redding during a summer day but it seemed a bit cooler than normal.  We started out on the Sacramento River Trail.  We biked a total time of 90 minutes.  We did the loop up the east side of the river from the park, over the concrete ribbon bridge by Keswick dam and back down the west side of the river.

Here is a shot of Keswick Dam from the ribbon bridge.  I remember Keswick Dam, actually the lake.  My dad used to like to take a cool boat ride on the lake in the evenings but he would make ME get in the water to launch and retrieve the boat.  It was COLD!!  The water for that lake came right out of the bottom of Shasta Lake.

Here is a picture of the concrete ribbon bridge.  It is the only one of its kind this continent.  Read more about it here.

And here is a picture of Roxie crossing the bridge in her neon outfit (not real clear, I had to zoom in).  I am sure she was terrified!

Once we did the loop the next natural thing was to ride on down to the Sundial bridge.  I guess this is a pretty famous bridge and you read about in that previous link about the concrete ribbon bridge.  It was only about 1 mile round trip down there.  The platform of the bridge is glass panels and they actually let you ride your bikes over it (5mph).  Pics:

After all that we were pretty beat.  We still did some needed shopping for groceries and fuel.  Went back to the trailer, had our leftover Indian food.  We then visited with Mike and we got a photo of the two of us:

I almost forgot!  Here is the requisite shot of our trailer in the campsite.  This is space 34:

Next stop: Canyonville, OR