Made a brief stop in Lodi, California, at the Cosumnes River Preserve. The area is supposed to have an influx of sandhill cranes in the fall. The town of Lodi holds a sandhill crane festival in November. Saw small groups of cranes, as well as waterfowl. If there were affordable rv parks in the area, I might have stayed a few days.

Would also love to visit the Point Reyes National Seashore and other birding spots in the San Francisco area. Here, again, it is hard to find affordable places to stay.

On my way down the #101, about half way between Crescent City and San Francisco, found that gas prices started to be more in line with what I had seen in Oregon. That was a nice surprise.