Mount Shasta, just south of Yreka on I-5.
My Doctor says the plan suggested for weight loss while eating at restaurants is this: when you order also ask for a take-home box. Put 1/2 the order into the take-home box, then eat the rest. I tried something like this at the Purple Plum in Yreka where I could have gotten 10% off if I had remembered to show my Best Western room key. But i didn't do that. I did get the meat loaf dinner and the take home box. I had a great dinner and the next day a full lunch, perhaps even more than I would have otherwise had for lunch. Score one for the plan. But I left after the Plum stopped letting people in, then realized I had left the take-home box on the table. The doors would not open so I had to go bang on the front window to get a waitress to see the box - she did but I felt like the guy in the horror movie about to be eaten by the monster while the patrons of the restaurant ignored the peril I was in.
But here's the tip: I woke up at 5:30 a.m. Not because I'm really into early to bed and early to rise (and your gal goes out with other guys, as the song says) but because the previous room guest left the **** alarm clock set and the maid did not unset it. The tip is this: first thing when you get a motel room. Unplug the clock. You'll never figure out whether or how to change the alarm setting. Just unplug it and forget it.
Stayed at the Best Western in Santa Rosa, abandoning the Motel 6 because it has no broadband internet. The BW is way over town, as Ray Charles said (way cross town?) and it looks like any other strip motel. Once you get settled in you can see advantages, like the landscaping outside the big floor to ceiling glass door. But its got one of those windows for late night check-in where you're outside and the guy is inside and you slide stuff through a little slot. I never thought of this kind of security against walkup stickups as indiciative of a nice neighborhood. Kind of makes me nervous about staying there at all.
Naturally the wi-fi failed about 1/2 hour after I got there. They had a hardwired room (most do) and it failed too. The clerk was really nice and got tech support going and in another hour or so we were back on the internet. I got lost driving to court - it turns out that Santa Rosa's freeway exits and entrances are not all paired up. Sometimes you can get off but not back on - and the Santa Rosa/Corby exit for the BW is one of those.
Good room otherwise. Large comfortable bed, good desk space for working, bath tub, and the whole thing was spacious. I did hate to change rooms when I can only carry 10 pounds at one time - that kindof draws things out. Perhaps it's good exercise.
