On the road....storm chasers!

So our road trip adventure begins! With the Turtle all nipped, tucked and tweaked we set off south down H97. Our intention was to head west to Eugene and then over to coast and down the coast road to Napa Valley and San Francisco. Unfortunately because of al the snow McKenzie Pass was closed and so our
path across the mountains was blocked!

It was a very picturesque trip down to the Mt Shasta area in California where we are staying the night. We'd planned to camp in The Turtle at the Mt Shasta KOA (Campgrounds of America) but quickly abandoned that idea as a huge snow storm was swirling around Mt Shasta - besides being freezing we didn't want to wake up in the morning under a mound of snow!, so we took refuge in a motel in a little town called Weed - yes, Weed - we can now add another definition of the word to the dictionary = a small, cold, snowy Californian town near Mt Shasta! It does look very pretty blanketed in snow.

We are looking forward to arriving in the Napa Valley tomorrow for a bit of wine tasting.

Just south of Bend - Newberry National Volcanic Monument.
Thought we were back in Kona, Hawaii, except for the snow

This is what it was like all the way to Klamath falls - snow, snow everywhere!

Very pretty! Glad it was nice and warm in The Turtle.

The sun bursts through the snow storm clouds near Crater Lake National 

Upper Klamath Lake.  Sunshine and snow storm over  the Mountain
Lakes Wilderness Area behind.

South of Klameth Falls - the first flat farmland we'd seen.

Near Goosenest Mountain, 8280 feet,

Klamath National Forest. Snow storm in background.

Mt Shasta amidst the snow storm - not a good idea to camp

at its base in the Turtle !