Burney Falls Memorial State Park

Saturday | 8 April 2000: Today was another "driving day". But what a beautiful drive! We left Mt. Shasta City after refueling at the card-lock and headed east on Highway 89 to Susanville. We drove through beautiful forests and had vistas of Crater Peak and Mt. Lassen. There was snow along the road most of the morning. We stopped at McArthur-Burney Falls Memorial State Park. It was warm and sunny. Burney Falls is 129 feet high and the plunge pool at the bottom is about 24 feet deep. The falls are named for an early settler in the area, Samuel Burney. An unbelievable 100 million gallons of water flow over Burney Falls every 24 hours!

Burney Falls

We then continued our drive, peacefully driving down the highway, until we heard a clap of thunder... but it wasn't thunder - it was our awning unrolling as we were driving down the road! Luckily, we were at a wide spot in the road and we could pull over immediately. Also luckily, the awning popped-out only about 3 feet and then rolled back in. We had to unroll it all the way to get the awning to roll up correctly and a passing stranger helped us. No damage to motor home or awning. Just another adventure in RV ownership. We still cannot figure out WHY this happened, of course! Actually, we have never used the awning - we have never camped anywhere warm enough to sit outside! (Hopefully this stat will change on this trip!) We continued on through Reno and at 5 p.m. pulled into a "RV Resort" (translation: parking lot with full services, including the usual water, electricity and sewer - but also cable and telephone connections). Sounds like heaven to me! I can log on to a local AOL number through Lisa's account and telnet over to my local server. We head over to Mammoth Lakes for a few days tomorrow - until then, this is your totally geeky correspondent, signing off.