Spotted a Dutch Brothers Coffee drive-thru and ordered their mango smoothie - yum. Asked the clerks where to find a produce stand and they sent us through town to Kruse Farms. 
What fun! Got Walla Walla sweet onions, fresh corn and peaches - three to take back to the Dutch Bros. crew to thank them because they had been such "peaches" helping us.
Kruse Farms has lots of melons, berries and other fruits and veggies. Inside, the bakery's turnovers were tempting - we were good and resisted. Hazelnuts came in a variety of forms, butter, roasted, flavored. Outside was the "Dog House" snack stand. Vance ordered a "Baron" sausage roll that was quite good. On we go.
We stopped for an official lunch at a Rest Stop just north of Glendale (Exit 80). We met a couple from San Diego who were traveling by car with three cats in crates. We had a nice chat while the husband got their camp stove going, heated water and made rice. The wife added salmon and peas and seasoning. Smelled great. She is a paralegal, and he is a patent lawyer. They have travelled a great deal, and we swapped stories. They were going all the way to Santa Cruz today! She also knits and does genealogy - finding ancestors in abandoned cemetery plots and other interesting places. We left them to their lunch and returned to the road.
We had called ahead to register for a Medford RV park. But after we checked it out, we decided not to stay. Went to Ashland next, home of the Shakespeare Festival. We parked, and walked around. Lithia Park offered a quiet bench along the babbling brook.
Several people came by to cool their feet in the water. I investigated upstream where children were playing just below a short waterfall. Above that many people were wading. One woman had just the right idea, she was reading while dipping her toes in the creek.
Moving through a pass, temperature turned cooler (what a relief!) and the land changed from flat valley farms to forested hills. Rained briefly.
Admire the truckers who haul goods over these hills regularly. Slowly up and carefully down the 6 percent grade highway. At the California border, a customs officer was going to confiscate our corn, unless we removed the husks. When we told him we would be microwaving them in the husks for dinner in Yreka, he let us keep them. Such fresh corn was delicious.
Seen along the way: Restaurant "Heaven on Earth" -- Part of I-5 is the Applegate Trail which pioneer wagons used -- "Enchanted Florist" and "Horsefeathers" of Ashland -- 1932 Classic Car with get-up-and-go --
Mount Shasta (14,162 feet). Other interesting information: While skimming the AAA Tourbook guide Vance learned that Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, MAINE! -- 2009 is Oregon's 150th Anniversary - Sesquicentennial. Ended at Yreka RV Park, Yreka, CA
Odometer 62,495.7 (225.2) Total: 4440.3
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