A Little Culture

Day 5. Saturday, April 25.


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We awoke in at our campground on Lake Siskiyou to clear blue skies so that meant on last stroll down to the shore for a look at Shasta. It was magnificent.



We took our time in the morning, Casey made some apple pancakes, and we left around noon for our next destination. This meant that finally, after over 850 miles of driving...



Of course the next day we will be heading right back into California. Regardless we reached Ashland before 2pm. Our campground... um... wasn't exactly what we were going for. It's tough to judge the places by the website, and while the facility was clean and well maintained the clientele... isn't. We knew this immediately when we pulled in to register and the first campers we saw were lifting weights outside of their RV like they were in a prison yard. I wanted Jake to take a photo, but we were pretty close and he didn't want to die.

But the campground wasn't why we were in Ashland. We were there for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and we had tickets for Macbeth at 8pm. We caught a cab into town and had dinner at the Standing Rock Brewery (great food and IPA). Ashland is a cool town surrounded by beautiful hills with a definite college feel as it's home to Southern Oregon University. The Shakespeare festival is right downtown and has and equal influence on life there. For good reason, too; we saw an incredible show. The set, cast, and direction was fantastic, costumes a little strange (everyone one wore 20th century military uniforms), but the actors who played Macbeth and Lay Macbeth were sensational. Of course we weren't allow to take photos of the show, but I pulled some off of the website.







We completed the night with some cocktails and live music (and amazing french fries) at a bar called Alex's nearby and took a cab back to Harvey.

The next day we drop Jake off and head back into California to meet up with Pops in the redwood forest.