Sunday, I rode to breakfast:
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I bu adieu to Joe and Sue and Dave and Edna, and headed out for a final look at the Columbia and the Pacific:
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I decided to try coming back US 26 rather than crossing over into Washington, This proved to be a mistake ,a s it was slower. Since I had a late beakfast, I didn't stop for lunch, but filled up at Grants' Pass, and stopped for the night in Yreka:
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I stayed ta the super 8 (really super!) and Had dinner at Casa Ramon across the Street (too much food for too little money!)
I woke up the next morning on got on the road. I stopped to take a picture of Mt Shasta, it glaciers, and Black Butte:
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I stopped again near Shasta lake:
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and again once I got to the Central Valley:
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I was going to go down 99, but changed my mind,. It turns out 5 was pretty busy. I stopped and took a picture of the California aqueduct:
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Ans that's where the title of my post comes from. The Aqueduct starts in the bay area and runs all the way down to SoCal. It's where the Cucamonga Valley Water supply district gets 60% of its water from. And since the Sacramento starts at Mt Shasta, I pretty much followed my drinking water rout all the way down > I remember filling a water bottle near Shasta Lake and think I jut getting my water a couple of day earlier.
I-5 through the San Joaquin Valley is 400 miles of this:
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But for relief and to continue the water theme:
The Former Tulare lake:
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and Kern lake:
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lots of orchards. these were pistachios:
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Eventually I did get to the Grapevine and La County. still had about 100 miles at this point:
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I stopped and had dinner in Santa Clarita. I would have taken my bike to Bent Up, since I was about 5 miles wasy when I came Newhall pass, but they were not open on Mondays.
Got home about 6 to no a/c. Gloom, despair and misery on me...
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