Yesterday, we intended to continue on past Fairview, but we discovered at this gas station that the RV has a broken leaf spring, so we stayed here overnight:

I have to drive about 1.5 hours back to Klammath Falls to buy replacement leaf springs.  Might as well have a hearty breakfast:

After returning from Klammath Falls, I got to work:

Installing the new spring:

The old spring, with the break at the top:

Ready to go:

We drove east to overnight at the Alvord Desert, a large dry lake in southeast Oregon.  Getting from the road to the lake bad was tricky, but we managed it and got set up around 1:30am:

 
See the alternating yellow line on the trip map for today’s drive.

It was pretty quiet overnight here at the Walmart of Willows, California.  We thought it was snowing, but it was actually raining ash from the Carr Fire:

We drove north to Lassen Volcanic National Park:

Visibility was limited here thanks to the Carr Fire:

Our first stop was the Sulphur Works area.  We checked out the boiling mud pots:

For the Lassen Dark Sky Festival, NASA scientists set up a display about Astrobiology here:

We continued north to our dispersed camping Shabbos location near Lava Beds National Monument:

Good Shabbos!

What a difference a day makes!  We’re loving the cool weather!

We received a package today at an Amazon Locker in Half Moon Bay.  This is great for RV travellers:

We left the RV in Half Moon Bay and drove into San Francisco:

Our first stop was Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park:

The park is located in a Ford plant used during World War II to outfit tanks.  With so many men serving in the military, 50% of the workers here during the war were women:

Oh boy:

We crossed the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge:

Our next stop was Point Reyes National Seashore:

Point Reyes is on the ocean side of the San Andreas Fault, slowly sliding north relative to the rest of California on the mainland side of the fault.  We walked out the the Fault:

This fence shows the location of the fence at this location after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.  The fault slipped, causing the earthquake and displacing the land on either side of the fault:

The blue posts show the location of the fault.  It will slip again someday:

We wanted to visit Muir Woods National Monument, but there’s no longer public parking there and all the shuttles were booked for the day.

We next visited Golden Gate National Recreation Area:

This area used to be a military base:

A former Nike Missile site:

There are bunkers and gun emplacements scatted all over the area:

We crossed the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco:

We next stopped at Fort Point National Historic Site, a Civil War-era fort.  The Golden Gate Bridge was built over the fort 50 years later:

I remember visiting the fort as a kid, but it’s now only open on weekends:

We could see San Francisco and Alcatraz Island in the distance:

We drove into San Francisco.  Parking was easier than I would have thought.  We waved at the cable cars going by:

We walked a couple blocks to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park:

The visitor center was well done:

Turns out this area was built on fill that left many abandoned ship hulls buried under the new land.  Before the fill arrived, ship owners sunk their hulls to claim what would become valuable real estate around their ship.  Sky scrapers were built on top of these hulls:

We checked out the boats at the pier:

The tug Hercules:

Alcatraz prison:

Inside the tug:

Heading back to the truck:

San Francisco City Hall:

On the way back down the coast to Half Moon Bay, we saw a paraglider free-flying at Pacifica.  I texted my PPG instructor Mark, who I knew was nearby, and we visited briefly.  He offered to take me for a flight tomorrow, so I’ll be back: