Leaving
from
Roseburg,
south towards increasingly Californiesque
vistas of
evolving aridity, and
at last the fog clears for keeps
near
Ashland,
up
and
over Siskiyou Summit,
downslope toward Shasta,
crossing near
Hilt,
back
through
Yreka,
as California's (astoundingly merely)
fifth highest elevation grows
increasingly
grand,
then down the great staircase
past the Lake and
into the Central Valley between Snow and St. John Mountains to the west
and those mysterious desertic Sutter Buttes to the East --
deja vu to Dunigan
Hills,
Mt. Diablo, the Vaca Mountains, and home.
