Trinity Lake and Whiskeytown

 I've neglected this blog, but I'm trying to catch up and share pictures of places I've been lucky enough to see and experience on my road trip/s.  

I caught up with a couple I knew many years ago, saw their enterprises, and explored the countryside as well.  

They live in Lewiston, California and over the years, I've admired their pictures of their home and wanted to visit them sometime.

This past month, I made a side trip and was blown away by the area's sheer beauty. Quite frankly, I envied them their little slice of paradise.     

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Trinity Lake.     Let me just say WOW, the beauty, the majesty, ok, I could put in a whole buncha superlatives here, but you don't need to read them.   Instead, I'll just share some pictures.  

My friends suggested, strongly, that I needed to take a drive up the mountain, so I did.  I got up to the Dam, and even though I'd been told that people could drive out on it, found that the road there was closed to traffic.  But I got to see it from up above.    

The road is windy, very windy, and you have to go slow, but the beauty, OMG...  Totally worth it.  There are also lots of camping sites here as well. 

There's more, cause I try to take pictures of any signage, cause I read it and then forget it right away, sometimes.  If I'm sharing information, I like it to be accurate.  And the signs generally are, accurate that is. 

And if you know me, at all, you know I had to take pictures of the pretty flowers surrounding the area I was at.   No idea of the name of these beauties, but it doesn't really matter to me, cause I thought they were photo worthy. 

I believe the following pictures are mountain asters. 

As I said, I just thought they were pretty, and yes, I do know I can 'google ID' them but I may never do so. 

I had stopped in to see friends in Lewiston, and a lovely though brief visit with them, and kinda screwed up a bit, cause it was Memorial weekend and I'd not thought to secure a hotel room, but managed to get what was probably the last room available in town at the Lewiston Motel.  I stayed in the 'cottage', which was a little park model, right in the middle of blessed peace and quiet.   I was only going to stay one night, but extended it into two days, simply for the quiet.  

I got to taste Jarrett's amazing smoked meat, got a lovely visit in with Tania as she manned the little store that they are part owners of.  

As I was leaving I took a few photo's of the store and signs.   If you're in Lewiston, stop on by for one of Jarret's amazing take out meals, or if you're camping in the area, the market probably has whatever it was you forgot.  

If you stop in there, tell them Sid sent you. 😋  If you pick up a plate of Jarrett's delicious food.  You won't get a discount... But you will get some amazing food.  

On the way out, I stopped at Whiskeytown National Park, picked up a couple of souvenirs, and bought a book about all the national parks that you can put stickers in. I decided to start it for my future great-grandchild. I'll pass it on after I get one, and hopefully, I will have a few more stickers in it by then. 

Driving to it, my attention was caught by the giant pipes crawling up or down the mountain. 

There were lots of hikes you could go on around here, but I was on a road trip and wasn't feeling especially energetic that day. 

Totally worth the stop.