We keep on saying how we’re gonna drive early to avoid the heat, but we don’t end up leaving camp until lunchtime. Today was another one of those days. We also stopped in a little town to upload our latest video at the free wifi at the library. Thankfully it was fast.

We stopped at a lake in Whiskeytown which had a $1 shower, much needed!

We drove through wildfire smoke, but it wasn’t as bad as other smoke we’d driven through in Canada and Alaska.

It was mostly a driving day and super hot. We gradually climbed up to about 5000 feet and it was much cooler. all the national forest campgrounds were closed because of the fires, so we just kept on driving until we reached the town of Susan ville, where we slept the night in a Walmart carpark.