We just spent the last week before school in a vacation home in Junction City, CA. Julie found a VRBO on the hillside just above the town. While the drive there was pretty long especially going straight up I5 then winding along 299 out of Redding, the time did pass quicker than I anticipated. This vacation was the first time we have deviated from choosing a costal location with easy beach access. The closest we had come to this kind of location was our Santa Barbara vacation (4/2009) which was still only 20-25 minutes from nice beach access.
Well we arrived at the cabin with a few hours of daylight left. As we walk in the door we are greeted with a song from Big Mouth Billy Bass hanging on the wall! During the rest of the week Billy entertained us with a little ditty often. So, we headed in, unpacked and headed out for a walking tour of the neighborhood. The lots were large enough that you could only see a couple of other homes. As we walked around the neighborhood, hoping to find convenient access to the river, we discovered all the neighborhood access was on private property.
I started the following morning with a run around the neighborhood, being greeted by a curious dog along the way. Then we investigated the "town" of Junction City where we picked-up some lures to fish with and headed west along 299, which parallels the Trinity River, until we found a good access point called Pigeon Point to setup on the river and play and relax. After a couple hours we drove west on 299 to Willow Creek looking for an ice cream stop and ran into this big creature:
Bigfoot was a popular figure in all the little out croppings (too small to be called towns) up and down along 299. To the right is Anna posing with Bigfoot in Willow Creek. On the way back we found another shaded fishing hole we called Shady Bend (since it was shaded and at a bend in the river).
The following day we we headed back to shady bend and Anna took a shot at fishing. It only took a couple of times reeling in the line before she caught her first fish!
... more to come ...
Well we arrived at the cabin with a few hours of daylight left. As we walk in the door we are greeted with a song from Big Mouth Billy Bass hanging on the wall! During the rest of the week Billy entertained us with a little ditty often. So, we headed in, unpacked and headed out for a walking tour of the neighborhood. The lots were large enough that you could only see a couple of other homes. As we walked around the neighborhood, hoping to find convenient access to the river, we discovered all the neighborhood access was on private property.
I started the following morning with a run around the neighborhood, being greeted by a curious dog along the way. Then we investigated the "town" of Junction City where we picked-up some lures to fish with and headed west along 299, which parallels the Trinity River, until we found a good access point called Pigeon Point to setup on the river and play and relax. After a couple hours we drove west on 299 to Willow Creek looking for an ice cream stop and ran into this big creature:Bigfoot was a popular figure in all the little out croppings (too small to be called towns) up and down along 299. To the right is Anna posing with Bigfoot in Willow Creek. On the way back we found another shaded fishing hole we called Shady Bend (since it was shaded and at a bend in the river).... more to come ...
