Brenda and Harlan's Trip Blog

Ate breakfast in the car at the motel this morning and then headed to the Mt. Shasta Ski School. We were the only 2 who showed up for the 1:30pm group cross country ski lesson. Harlan was a pro and Brenda ‘french fried’ when she should have ‘pizzad’ many times and got individual attention most of the lesson. She fell down only once during the lesson and won a powerbar from the instructor. We then did some cross country skiing on the trails and Brenda only fell down twice on these trails. Gorgeous views of Mt. Shasta from the trails. We finished up about 4:30 and headed to food, food and more food at a recommended Thai restaurant in Dunsmuir called SengThong. They make the best (fresh) spring rolls anywhere. We inhaled appetizers, a main course and Harlan ordered 3 desserts (but we didn’t finish one of them – too sweet). We then went to the Caboose Motel in Dunsmuir. It is a motel park where the rooms are train cars that are located just below gorgeous views of Castle Crag. We stayed in the #1 caboose from the ‘Erie’ line. It was COLD when we got in and it took way too long to heat up. We were told by the ‘caboose keeper’ to keep the water running in the bathroom so the pipes don’t freeze. Plus the toilet didn’t work. Harlan identified the problem…broken chain in the tank. Since the plumber couldn’t get there until tomorrow, we were stuck with manually pulling the tank chain every time we had to flush. Plus they had a small hot water tank and we ran out of water trying to fill the ‘claw foot’ tub for baths. Guess this is how it was for people traveling on trains way back whenever!!!

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