Old Friends, New Birds

May 4 & 5, 2024 – Day 50 & 51

Sequoia RV Park, Dunlap California – Inn Town Campground, Nevada City, CA

This will be a short blog. We drove up to Nevada City, CA. We met some old friends for dinner. We slept. Got up, went grocery shopping and did some laundry. Then we met these same old friends for dinner at their place. Slept some more.

But we guess you want some details, right?

May 4, 2024

We drove from the middle of California to, uhh, the middle of California. Texas is the wide state, California is the tall state.

At least they decorate their overpasses. Actually, a lot of western states do this. We both wish they would do it in New England. We could have Lobstahs and Tom Brady, wait, not him, Lobstahs and Big Papi.

Traffic in Sacramento was stop and go for a while. Finally we reached the campground. At the end of the street was a narrow gauge railway museum that we just didn’t have time to visit. Weirdly, inside the campground is a Chinese Cemetery! That’s certainly a first for us. 10,000 or more Chinese immigrants were instrumental in constructing the transcontinental railway, more on that later.

Since it was a driving day we couldn’t plan on any long visits with our friends. So we just met up at a really nice Italian restaurant after we got to the campground. (susan here: If you ever find yourself in Grass Valley, CA and you need dinner head straight for Cirino’s. It was SOOOOOO good.) It was an early night for us after a long travel day.

The street that the restaurant was on was very quaint.

Daily: 265

Total: 4,447

Driving Miles/Day: 247

Overall Miles/Day: 89

mpg: 6.92

Life Birds: 0

May 5, 2024

Laundry, groceries, dinner at our friends’ house which has an 18% grade driveway. The food was spectacular and we got 4 life birds at their feeders!

The Giants lost. Bummer.

Life Birds: 4 (Black-headed Grosbeak, Spotted Towhee, Oak Titmouse, Nuttall’s Woodpecker)