Day of Rest

Even God rested on the 7th day. So did Jeff & Josh. We spent the day integrating new found energy from the Mountain out our window. Catching up on the blog after 7 days of no writing, sleeping in, etc. Josh did his favorite 'activity' watching Top Gear episodes on You Tube.
Venture out only for food...and a brilliant sunset show.

JC leaves for CT, Josh & Jeff paddle wheel

Jocelyne gets a call around 7am local time. Her father not doing well. She decides to fly back and see him. She books a flight out of San Francisco about 5+ hours away. She leaves the boys by 11 am.

Josh and Jeff decide to go out on one of the local lakes called Siskiyou, about 10-15 minutes outside of the town of Mt. Shasta. There at the popular beach for families they rent a paddle wheel boat at Josh's insistence. He wanted to try it out for the first time. About half way out Josh started using only one leg and hence recieved the name 'one legged lebowitz' and lots of pirate talk for the rest of the tour. (Josh alternated legs) Great view of the lake here, kids swam and boated like adults. Fun place! Water clean and cool.

Lake Shasta caverns

3 J’s go to Shasta lake caverns. Boat tour across Lake Shasta (45 min drive form town of Mt. Shasta) for 15 minutes.

Upon landing we took a tour bus up 800 ft to the caverns. For an hour tour we go through the caves and we all enjoy it. I take lots of pics. Moist and in the 70’s inside with the humidity, even though the real temp was in the 50’s.

Great living rocks like stalactites and spaghetti formations. Some quite large- one caverns was 180' high inside and loaded with formations.

On the road up, squirrels have become smart and roll pine cones in front of the tires to crush them and thus reveal the pine nuts. Tour operators decide to avoid the cones to save their tires. Squirrels step up and roll out cones right before the moving vehicles can swerve.

Shasta Jeff alone, Josh & Jocelyne pyramid

Jeff gets up early and hikes up to around the 10,000 ft mark by himself going up to 'horse camp' and the natural spring there. He brings a taste down to Josh and Jocelyne later. At 'horse camp' there are families and elderly people who hiked the 1.6 miles up to taste the water or base camp for a hike the next day to the summit. Great stone cabin up here. 2 weeks earlier the cabin and spring had 5+ feet of snow on and around them.
Jocelyne and Josh stay in town and go to the Crystal Tones store and play more crystal bowls. The shopkeeper plays some new bowls for them. Later the dynamic duo go to a pyramid near the mountain for some inspiration/guidance/attunements.

Mt. Shasta

We Slept very little. Felt energized thru the evening though. Woke up at 1:30am feeling I had gotten a full nights sleep. Quiet all around us.
Elevation in town is around 4,000 ft. It's 48 degrees out this morn! Cold!
We drive up Mtn (20 minutes from the town of Mt. Shasta) to various spots and take photos. The energy here is unprecedented in its heart opening qualities. At 7,000 ft we stop to get out and hike a little, do some meditations. Josh does great hiking, while Jocelyne's feet keep getting tangled up with each other.
Then we drive up to the end of the road at 8,000 ft. There is a labyrinth up there at this flat spot. The peak is 14,179 ft above sea level. To summit takes some expertise and leaving your base camp early (usually around 3:30 am for most climbers so they can make it back to base before sundown).
At the 8,000 ft flat spot, we get out out crystal bowls and play them for awhile. A group of people gather to bask in the sun and sound while we play.
During lunch at 8,000 ft. Josh got a call from his father, you can see him on the phone trying to describe his lunch environment.

Klamath Falls & Crater Lake

Talk at Info center in Klamath Falls OR and decide to go to Crater Lake. Gorgeous Blues like you will see no where else. This is the deepest lake in the United States and you have to drive up 1000 ft just to see it. The reason it is so blue is that all the other colors are absorbed at certain depths- leaving only the blue. A blue that can only be appreciated when viewing directly.

The crate was formed originally as volcano 10,000 plus years ago. It blew off its head, then filled with water. No water leaves this crater except by evaporation and only fills by rain/snow. Stays about the same depth year after year. A new cap started to form later and is now called "Wizard Island" Boat tours take you there IF you can climb down the 1.1 mile steep face to the dock!

Local ground squirrels are quite friendly and will come up to your hands or feet.

A complete driving circle around the crater takes about 2 1/2 hours to all day.

After the crater, we drive 3 hours to the Mount Shasta area to Weed, CA. As we see the mountain it captures us. When I get into town of Weed and look at the Mountain I feel overwhelmed with energy. Its awesome! Heart centered and great. Check into our hotel and feel the energy all night. Room 114 pet friendly-last room avail. But the most spacious room we have been in- 2 queens, full desk and 4 arm chairs in a good sized living area.

Driving through Southern Oregon

Leave our nice place and head out on 2 lane highways for the day. We drive 356 miles through twisty -turney roads. Lunch in Hilander (Burns, OR) at a nice Chinese place. When passing an RV today I then saw the biggest Eagle I have seen in 10 years. He was perched on a telephone pole with his side/back to me. It was 3+ feet from head to tail. I thought it was a vulture at first til I saw the head, then knew it was an eagle. Immediately after we saw a flying eagle and a flying hawk.

Growing onions and other crops everywhere around here.

Drove past Alkali lakes and took photos. Many were dry, and they all smell slightly of rotting eggs.

Left Ontario around 10:45am Mtn time and got to Klamath Falls OR about 7pm Pac time. Over an 8 hour driving day with no interstate. We are very tired the last hour.

This part of Oregon is still the high desert (much like nevada) to the south of our road and then more green and mountainous to the north- we drove along this edge to avoid the high temps (114+ F) in northern Nevada this week.