Last month, Chris and I took a mini-vacation up towards Lake Shasta in northern California to check out old ghost towns and to sample the local flavor. We got some of both by staying at the French Gulch Historic Hotel and poking our noses around Shasta and Cottonwood. Here are a few pictures from our time up north.
French Gulch, California 
Chris in the breakfast room at the Historic French Gulch Hotel
The owners of the Historic French Gulch Hotel–our hosts, our bartender, and the ones who urged us to sing karaoke no matter how bad we were.
French Gulch cemetery (graves dating back to the late 19th century with a few people still buried there recently)
Shasta, California–a ghost town that’s been well preserved and is now a state park
The crazy bridge at Redding, California
