We left a cold and foggy University Place in Washington State around nine in the morning, heading south on I-5 for Seven Feathers RV park in Canyonville Oregon- where we arrived around 3:30 PM.   When we pulled out of Canyonville the following morning, the weather at Siskiyou Summit (4310 feet, the highest elevation on Interstate-5)  was around freezing with the possibility of light snow  but things improved- so much so, that by the time we crossed the pass- the pavement was dry.   Welcome to California!
  
We spent the night a Heritage RV about an hour south of Redding in the little town of Corning.   The next day we continued down the San Joaquin Valley to Chowchilla (only 18 miles south of  Laveta's relatives in Merced ).  We also saw my youngest brother, who was there temporarily, inroute to Nevada for the winter.

A few weeks later in San Diego, our son-in-law, who was on his way  to see his parents in New Mexico joined us for a couple of days.    Finally- our friends Jim and Carol flew down to join us the last week of our stay in San Diego.  Then the four of us drove home north along the coast- seeing seven of California's twenty one Missions before crossing Pacheco Pass into the San Joaquin Valley.
 

 Old Town San Diego.  The Flagpole at left hoisted the first American flag over California.  We later saw the first home the first  first school etc. There were many museums and lots of shopping.  On our second visit we took Jim and Carol with us.  We ate breakfast at Fiesta de Reyes .

Laveta and I took the opportunity to drive about 120 miles up I-15 to Ontario and see the apartment where we'd lived in 1964-1965.   And yes things had changed.  It was no longer a nice neighborhood and of course we were no longer young but the old apartment was still there...
and so were we.   <1964 photo link>