Heat

Marie and I just took an adventurous trek over to Redding. With all the current wild fires in the area most of the normal routes were closed Highways 299 and 36 the most direct roads both closed. Highway 96, a more convoluted route also closed. We ended up driving all the way up into Oregon and hitting I5 and then coming back down into Redding, turning a normally 3 hour drive into about a six hour jaunt. Now that may seem extreme but some good came out of it. We passed through some beautiful country (scenic views of Mt. Shasta, the Castle Crags etc.) that Marie had never seen before. But the really bizarre thing of the whole trip was the temperature swing. Coming back home, As we passed form Oregon back into Calif. on route 199 (From Grants Pass to Crescent City) We stopped in Cave Junction for some refreshment at the Dairy Queen 'cause the temperature was at 104 (way to hot for a couple of fog crawlers from the coast) as we proceeded south and home we passed through the tunnel at Oregon Mountain just inside the Calif. border, temperature still at 104. almost immediately the outside temp started dropping. with in minutes the temp had dropped to 80.... by the time we reached highway 101, about 35 miles)the temp. was down to 57. That's a change of almost 50 degrees... amazing !!