{"id":215,"date":"2011-06-16T23:08:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/matt\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-06-16T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T06:08:47","slug":"day-6-susanville-to-redding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/day-6-susanville-to-redding\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 6 – Susanville to Redding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We had planned another short riding day to give ourselves a break.\u00a0 Our plan was to leave Susanville and stop at the Lassen Volcanic Monument to check out the visitor’s center and maybe swing by the sulfur springs.\u00a0 After that we’d head into Redding and call it a day.<\/p>\n

The volcanic gods wanted to keep their sulfur a secret.\u00a0 As we were riding west we were looking for the visitor center which has a unique name that starts with the letter “K” and sounds vaguely Asian (go figure).\u00a0 We rode through the park craning our necks every which way to find it, but no such luck.\u00a0 By that point in the day we were ready to keep going on towards Redding so we didn’t turn back and look for it when it was clear that we were miles beyond the park.\u00a0 It probably turned out for the best because I needed to call into work for a quick meeting and we would have been in no way within AT&T’s network had we located the visitor’s center.<\/p>\n

We took CA Route 36 most of the way which was great going through Lassen National Forest.\u00a0 Really good curves in there that brought me unreasonable joy.\u00a0 The CA Route 89 through the park was closed with a late snow so we needed to take some side roads between CA Route 36 and CA Route 44.\u00a0 Keep in mind that our “favorite” GPS had lead us out onto an unpaved forest service road alleging it was paved.\u00a0 It also has routed us in completely incomprehensible directions that seem to be completely opposite of the settings I have for the routing.\u00a0 Needless to say we had some serious apprehension of the route that it had chosen to get us between the two CA Routes.\u00a0 The first turn off ended up being a private drive — I suspect we weren’t the first Garmin users to try it.\u00a0 We drove further down and the GPS found the next route in.\u00a0 We gingerly took it expecting it to turn to gravel at any point.\u00a0 It didn’t, and turned out to be some of the most fun riding we’ve had so far on this trip.\u00a0 It was completely back roads, rural, super twisty, and entirely fun.\u00a0 There were some hair pin turns that made for some exciting moments.<\/p>\n

Upon arriving in town we went to the Chipotle for lunch.\u00a0 Mark another one on our Chipotle list!\u00a0 Someday we’ll get them to sponsor our ride across the country visiting each Chipotle.<\/p>\n

It was blisteringly hot here compared to the high desert in Susanville.\u00a0 It was hot there (mid-80’s), but it was hotter here (high 80’s).\u00a0 I must be an official Pacific Northwest person because that was way too hot for me.\u00a0 After we dumped our bikes and gear at the hotel we walked over to Alehouse Pub.\u00a0 We drank ourselves silly and then went out for dinner.\u00a0 I’ll be feeling it tomorrow, but we had to let loose.<\/p>\n

Pictures from Day 6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had planned another short riding day to give ourselves a break.\u00a0 Our plan was to leave Susanville and stop at the Lassen Volcanic Monument to check out the visitor’s center and maybe swing by the sulfur springs.\u00a0 After that we’d head into Redding and call it a day. The volcanic gods wanted to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-ride-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}