We drove our coach 169 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Groveland to Dunlap, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

An interactive map:

Hills:

A narrow curvy road; not preferred, but the best route (and it was RV-safe):

Coulterville, a fairly cute little town:

No rest areas, so a brief stop on side of the road, along with a couple of trailers:

Mammoths on a bridge over CA-99, apparently in honor of Columbian Mammoths at the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County:

A soft sand parking spot at a TA truck stop:

Food court at the TA; we had Fatburger for lunch:

Hills:

Our destination:

We drove our coach 95 miles, about two hours of driving, from Manteca, California to Groveland, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

An interactive map:

Thank you for visiting:

Lots of low trees scraped our roof:

Narrow road and roadworks:

Milk plant:

Oakdale:

CA-120 East:

Yosemite reservations required weekends:

Don Pedro Lake:

Pipes:

Curvy highway (check out the video for this journey with a picture-in-picture of this part):

Groveland:

Thousand Trails gas station:

Campground office:

The site we chose:

We drove our coach 165 miles, about four hours of driving, from Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

An interactive map:

Goodbye super-low Emigrant Lake:

Joining I-5, with lots of wildfire smoke:

“Long steep downgrade ahead”:

“Siskiyou Mountain Summit elevation 4,310 feet, highest elevation on I-5”:

“Oregon thanks you, come back soon”:

“Welcome to California”:

A glimpse of Mount Shasta in the background:

Agricultural inspection station, unstaffed when we went through:

Mount Shasta view:

Rest area with RV parking:

Roadworks:

Shasta Lake:

For comparison, a view of the lake when we last went past here in 2021, quite a lot lower:

Fuel stop:

The pump said “Dispenser Reserved”, so should have been blocked off; we had to pull around to another pump:

Our destination:

Our site: