Friday, July 6, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Finished packing. Archived documents. Organized the food cabinet. Travis, Steve, and Matt picked me up. We're going camping and whitewater rafting on the middle fork of the American River this weekend. This rafting trip is rated at Class IV (Class 4) with one Class V rapid and one portage. Two nights of camping, one day of rafting. Travis and Steve picked me up at my place and then we picked up Matt downtown. Matt and I napped for the drive up to Auburn. The KOA campground was really easy to miss. We actually missed the first driveway and we were going to do a U-turn but then the GPS said to turn right so we did—onto the old dirt road which we believe at one time had been the main road in a long time ago. We drove across a bumpy and dusty road, crossed a small wooden bridge, and within a minute or two arrived safely at the campground. Travis and Steve checked us in. I think in general people enjoyed the campground. Our area was near some streetlights which never turned off at night, and the campground is near an airport so some of us awoke to the sound of small planes taking off at 7:01 AM. We did get to see some interesting, old propeller planes, though. Before night fell, we took a test drive to locate the grocery store parking lot which was the meeting place for tomorrow morning. I think we bought some groceries.