After more than 1000 miles in total I ended the second day of my road trip in Weed, California where I checked in at a nice motel. I spent the morning among others with driving and with visiting the Lake Britton area. The lake itself lies in the beautiful Shasta National Forest. I decided to stop there to take some pictures of an old railroad bridge which is part of the McCloud river railroad. I made this stop here as the bridge was one of the scenes in a favorite movie of my childhood and I always dreamt of walking over it for myself. The construction, 30 meters high with no handrail or anything and just the swells of the old railroad to walk over does not really invite to do so (and children should not repeat this without the allowance of their parents). Anyway, it was great to sit there and wait for the rain... but since the route is in the meantime abandoned there won't be any train in the future.
In the afternoon I drove approximately three hours in the middle of nowhere, that is the Mt. Shasta Wilderness. Lonely gravel roads through quiet forest without any other tourists made this afternoon a mentally very relaxing experience although steering my big SUV over rough and smooth required a lot of concentration. The GPS navigation system helped me not to get lost on all the dirt roads (most of them were just referred as military passes - for sure with a tank it is easy to drive there but not with any other vehicle)
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