#yreka

[theartsofrust]

[larryshapiro]

Yreka Fire Department, CA - Seagrave apparatus

[hotelbooking]

Baymont by Wyndham Yreka Getting the most from your time in Yreka (CA) is a breeze when staying at the accessibly-located The facilities and services provided by In-room conveniences include room service and daily housekeeping, so you can relax and enjoy your stay. The hotel is entirely non-smoking, ensuring a clean air environment. Experience high-quality room facilities during your stay at The hotel also provides guests with a refrigerator and a coffee or tea maker in some rooms. Knowing that bathroom amenities play an important role in increasing guests' satisfaction, the hotel provides a hair dryer, toiletries and towels in some select rooms. Start your vacation days in the best possible way. Your mornings at To fill your days, be sure to check out the fantastic facilities offered at

[imtraveluv]

Here's a great rest stop for the  next time you drive up Highway 5 to Oregon.

[rabbitcruiser]

Siskiyou County, CA

Siskiyou County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,076. Its county seat is Yreka and its highest point is Mount Shasta. It falls within the Cascadia bioregion.

Siskiyou County is in the Shasta Cascade region along the Oregon border. Because of its outdoor recreation, Mt. Shasta, McCloud River, and Gold Rush era history, it is an important tourist destination within the state.

Source: Wikipedia

[20th-century-railroading]

A helping hand by Greg Brown Via Flickr: On a sunny fall day in 1986, an SD45R painted for the Southern Pacific-Santa Fe merger assists an eastbound SP train up the 1.4% grade at Cougar, California. The big EMD had been rebuilt the previous year at SP's Sacramento general shops.

The snow-capped peak in the distance is Goosenest Mountain. When Willis Kyle was in Yreka managing the Yreka Western Railroad, the mountain allegedly inspired him to create the "Goose" logo used by all of the various Kyle Railroad properties.

[circularsidewalks]

No one believed her; what did she have to lose? The detectives had told her the evidence they had was overwhelming and pointed to her as a murderess; she knew she was not. The detectives convinced her she was there and had been responsible for Travis death. As days, then weeks, then months, then years went by there was no one willing to listen to her; not even her attorneys appointed by the Court would believe her. No one investigated her trip to Utah. No one looked at the Pictures. Her family was standing by her, but even they seemed to have resigned themselves to The Story she began to tell in Yreka to the Detectives Flores and Blane. The Story she began to tell out of panic and frustration was changed ultimately. The Story became a full-fledged admission. The Story became one the Defense Attorneys felt comfortable with, not the truth; the Defense Attorneys were wrong, and the story was a LIE.

Jodi Arias's False Confession - Trial By Pictures

[jthume]

Portland Again

Hello from Portland, Oregon, our second Portland this year after our trip to Maine.

Episode 181 is a shorter podcast (with no video) as we are on yet another road trip, this time up the northern leg of Interstate 5 with the ultimate destination of someplace in British Columbia, Canada.

Our destinations today include the Portland Art Museum and Powell’s City of Books. 

Today's podcast touches on some fun things we’ve seen on this trip so far (like Nature’s Kitchen in Yreka), and our individual writing projects.

Our destinations today include the Portland Art Museum and Powell’s City of Books. 

Today is also Cover Reveal Day for Serving Salvation Book One (yay!).

Reminder: CC is nominated in the inaugural “Women in Podcasting” awards in the “Authors and Books” category (so proud!).

Have a listen and get ready to preorder Serving Salvation Book One on Wednesday, July 24 (my birthday). TIA LYL!

[crustywhitedogenthusiast]

thinking of changing the spelling of my name to yreka

[adodalinil]

see i feel like people who have never partaken in the california experience don't understand our geography. they think "ah, california is a big state. maybe so big that it ought to be two states. real big state." when in reality the differences between geography climate and social structure are so significant that they have to be stabbed at with both terms that are vague and imprecise enough to be nearly useless and relative distance from the various major city-states and fiefdoms in order to get a proper read on every individual californian in question. "im californian." they could be from anywhere. hollywood. los angeles. norcal, socal. central valley. outside the capitol. do you know the capitol city of california? it's probably not even in the first five californian cities you can think of. bay area. wine country. palm springs. tahoe. eureka and yreka. those are different cities. the pits of hell, or even bakersfield. outside san diego. the santa cruz beach boardwalk. those are two different cities, also - san diego and santa cruz. san jose and san francisco, too. three of those four cities have at least eight hundred thousand inhabitants - combined, they aren't even 10 percent of the total population. mendocino. modesto. middle of the mojave. they could even be from weed

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

Murder of Travis Alexander

Travis Victor Alexander was born on July 28, 1977.  Alexander and Arias began dating in February 2007. Arias moved to Mesa to live closer to Alexander. In April 2008, she moved to Yreka, California, and lived there with her grandparents.    Alexander and Arias dated intermittently for a year and a half, often in a long-distance relationship, taking turns traveling between their respective Arizona and California homes. Alexander's friends who knew Arias and observed them together tended to have a negative opinion of her, stating that the relationship was unusually tumultuous and that Arias' behavior was worrying

In early 2008, Alexander told acquaintances that Arias would join him for a work-related trip to Cancún, Mexico scheduled for June 15. In April, Alexander asked to change his travel companion to another female friend, Marie Hall. On May 28, a burglary occurred at the residence of Arias' grandparents, with whom Arias was living. Among the missing objects was a handgun chambered in .25 caliber, which was never recovered. This later became significant as a shell case from a spent .25 caliber round was found near Alexander's body at the murder scene.

On June 2 between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m., Arias called Alexander four times but did not appear to reach him, as the longest of the calls' durations was 17 seconds. After 3:00 a.m., Alexander called Arias twice, the first time for 18 minutes, the second time for 41 minutes. At 4:03 a.m., Arias called Alexander again, and the call lasted two minutes, 48 seconds. Neither these calls nor their transcripts were presented in Arias' trial. At 5:39 a.m., Arias drove south to rent a car for a long trip to Utah, as evidenced by a gasoline purchase in Yreka. On June 2 at 8:04 a.m., Arias rented a car in Redding, California and indicated that she would return the car to the same location. Arias visited friends in southern California on her way to Utah for a PPL work conference and to meet with Ryan Burns, a PPL co-worker. By late evening on June 3, Arias had apparently set out for Salt Lake City.

Alexander missed an important conference call on the evening of June 4. The following day, Arias met Burns in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan and attended business meetings for the conference. Burns later said that he noticed that Arias' formerly blond hair was now dark brown and that she had cuts on her hands. On June 6, she left Salt Lake City and drove west toward California. She called Alexander several times and left several voicemail messages for him. She also accessed his cell-phone voicemail system. When Arias returned the car on June 7, it had been driven about 2,800 miles (4,500 km). The rental clerk testified that the car was missing its floor mats and had red stains on its front and rear seats. However, it could not be verified that the car had floor mats when Arias had picked it up, and the red stains could not be analysed as the car was cleaned before police could examine it.

On June 9, having been unable to reach Alexander, a concerned group of friends went to his home. His roommates had not seen him for several days, but they believed that he was out of town and thus did not suspect that anything was amiss. After finding a key to Alexander's bedroom, the group entered and found large pools of blood in the hallway to the master bathroom and Alexander's body in the shower. In the 9-1-1 call (not heard by the jury), the dispatcher asked whether Alexander had been suicidal or if anyone was angry enough to hurt him. Alexander's friends mentioned Arias by name as a possible suspect, stating that Alexander had told them that she had been stalking him, accessing his Facebook account and slashing his car's tires.

While searching Alexander's home, police found his recently purchased digital camera damaged in the washing machine. Police were able to recover deleted images showing Arias and Alexander in sexually suggestive poses taken at approximately 1:40 p.m. on June 4. The final photograph of Alexander alive, showing him in the shower, was taken at 5:29 p.m. that day. Photos taken moments later show an individual believed to be Alexander "profusely bleeding" on the bathroom floor. A bloody palm print was discovered along the wall in the bathroom hallway; it contained DNA from both Arias and Alexander.

On July 9, 2008, Arias was indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County, Arizona for the first-degree murder of Alexander.

[eneiryu]

Hiya! I was curious where in California do you think Beacon Hills might be? I know you have the Yreka pack in a few fics, and that's somewhere up North. But how far is Beacon Hills from it?

Butte Meadows, California! 😆

I could not find it if you paid me cash money, but somewhere there was a post floating around where someone had actually done the legwork to supposedly calculate where Beacon Hills would be located, and the answer they came up with: Butte Meadows. And that was a good enough answer for me, so I’ve been rolling with it for…years, at this point.

And the Internet says it’s about 3.5 hours from Yreka, for whatever that’s worth. 😊

[larryshapiro]

Yreka, CA antique Seagrave apparatus for #TBT

[frogcatwcbiologyreweite]

In case you're not able to read my handwriting, here it what it says: (Warrior cats territories & range:

The Forest Territories / The Lake Territories / Klamath Mountains border / The Tribe Territories / The SkyClan Deepsands Gorge Territories

The Twolegplaces:

1. Medford- Town north to ShadowClan, home to BloodClan / 2. Grants Pass + Redwood- Towns north & northwest to ThunderClan and SkyClan, former home to FireStar / 3. Brookings- ? / 4. ?- A big town, former home to Purdy / 5. ?- A small town, northeast to WindClan and RiverClan, home to Pickle / 6. Eureka- Town south to ThunderClan & Modern SkyClan, west to ShadowClan, home to Jingo / 7. Yreka- Town northwest to DG SkyClan, home to Stick / 8. Weed- Town southeast to DG SkyClan, original home to Sol / 9. Redding- ? ( maybe I will make it the Guardian cats home) / 10. Klamath Falls- A big town, former home to Millie.)

So, as you can probably see I have changed this area a bit, and also I have shifted canon placement of the territories. It had been done just for fun, and my own desires. I have also added two additional towns ( number 4 and 5) as they are in canon. I hope no one living in these places felt offended, and if so, I didn't mean that.

But why have I done something like this?

Reading warriors I have always seen The Lake Territories as the more warm & exotic from the both places. I have never been there, but from my research I know the weather there, where I set this territories are often damp and wet. Winter is usually mild, but it can bring fair amount of snow, and summer is very hot and dry.

On the other hand the Forest Territories, always seemed colder to me. The weather for Medford ( from internet ) is often wet and cloudy, with short, hot, dry and mostly clear summer. And very cold, snowy winter.

The Sky Clan Deepsands Gorge Territories I set on a more dry, grassland and chaparral (thorny shrubland) place, because I love the overall impression it done on the story. Though there are some trees (mostly on the north west side) I adore the idea that the Modern SkyClanners are more like the Mediterranean cats, dwellers of something similar to rocky sub-deserts of western Crete.

[meatpuppit]

the big photo on the wall in our yreka CA motel room is of the big ferris wheel in seattle lollll

[metaphoricalmusings]

portland trip notes

aug 20 we headed out on the road after loading up the car drove for about 1.5 hours and stopped at a starbucks, charged the car up back on the road  passed into oregon state and took at picture at the sign stopped at yreka junction for dinner (taco bell), and went to walmart. we bought grapes at walmart (very yummy). my crunchwrap supreme was not crunchy at all, i was super disappointed.  arrived at our accommodation for the evening around 7pm. it’s a cozy mountain lodge. after we moved everything into the room, we went out for a short walk to check out the premises and golden hour. then we retired back to the room.  I had a call with miko to talk about his role as a TD and took a bunch of notes before we went to bed. 

aug 21 we have breakfast at the lodge (made waffles! very crispy. i hurt my gums eating them) we also tried the jacuzzi in our room, however, the jets did not work :(  on our way out I sniped some firewood tinder for our camping night later in the trip. drove a short scenic path along the cascade siskiyou national monument. stopped at various points to take some photos.  we dropped off stuff at our airbnb, then drove down to revolution hall to pick up our badges. checked out the vibes in the park and dropped things off into the car before walking over to dinner. we got ramen for dinner at toya ramen, justin and I swapped bowls because I ended up preferring his broth. i got a highball which was quite yummy. we shared a hojicha dessert. 

aug 23 I woke up super early again, started working on my sf zine fest illustration. at 7am when Justin woke up we walked over to Twisted Croissant and got croissants for breakfast (they were extremely delicious but also really pricey……. a ham and cheese croissant was $10 lol). it was drizzling a bit but not too bad. at 9am I took the netflix call with dan (hiring manager) in the airbnb and it went really well even though my internet cut out twice. got an email that they want to move forward with the process, and so have the panel interview scheduled for the following week.  we go to the conference and get seats in the auditorium for the opening talk. It’s pretty short, and then everyone heads outside and we’re just kind of wandering around different tables. sat for a few of the indie media circus talks in the tent. we went to dos hermanos bakery to get sandwiches for lunch which supposedly are “life changing”. they were humongous. i got a half sandwich and Justin got a whole one and it was like 2 feet long lol. very tasty and fresh and after some discussion we did agree that it was indeed life changing.  I drop by the visual art meet up at a brewery, then justin and I catch up with the photography meet up. It started raining a lot so then we sheltered in a brewery that happened to be next to where the filmmaking meetup was. We went to check it out and funnily enough I bumped into a girl that was a story artist who was already following me on instagram.  for dinner we go to the food truck cluster near revolution hall and get stuff from a mexican truck. justin got a quesadilla and I got tacos. they tasted ok (justin’s quesadilla cheese ratio was way off— too much cheese, not enough meat). unfortunately I think there was something not right about the food and it didn’t sit well for either of our stomachs.  we’re sitting at the table playing the royal game of ur when justin’s friend swings by with a pup and they chat some and I find out about cult flav which is interesting  then we head in for the side show talks, small bu animation (really neat), pudding.cool (justin missed this whole talk bc he was having shits as a result of the quesadilla) and then we went into the car for a nap before going back in for every frame a painting. I dozed off during the debut of their short film but anyway. we headed back to the airbnb after that.

aug 24 i literally called it the day before, but turns out the ppl staying the airbnb unit above us were also xoxo attendees lol. i had actually met them at the visual arts meetup—they’re a couple and also doing long distance where the guy lives in sf and the girl lives in….mexico?? not sure how thats gonna work out but yea.. anyway on day two we slept in a bit, then headed over to rev hall and justin got a steak breakfast sandwich at meat cheese and bread. I picked up coffee and a chai latte for justin at a vegan cafe nearby. they offered coconut milk as an option so I tried it, but didn’t really taste the difference in the latte.  we did some walking around and chatting with folks, then went in for the afternoon session of talks.  in the afternoon, I get a tamale and we sit down with a random girl at a picnic table to eat and chat. she turns out to be slightly a dud but then a guy named sam grover that we met at the photo meet up sat down and said hi. he turned out to be a super experienced ios developer so I was egging Justin on to ask him questions (free advice!!!) Eventually we head inside for the talks. It’s mostly talks for the afternoon, all of which are excellent. I felt genuinely moved and am already excited to rewatch some of them.  After everything wrapped up I was pretty tired—this whole thing is just a lot of socializing and I feel like I was still ramping back up after being literally in the mountains not really talking to anyone except our 8 person trek group so it was exhausting. I skipped on dinner and just chilled in the car for a bit while Justin went to eat with his friends. He brought me some food which was really nice and super tasty (kimchi mac n cheese and korean fried chicken) I was just rotting in the car with no real plans to leave but then Justin texted me that he was standing next to Tony and Taylor (Every Frame a Painting)!! it would be my last chance to say hi to them and tell him that the YouTube video they made were something I referenced a lot in my art career transition journey. taylor and I talked for quite a bit and we followed each other on IG. i was really happy lol

aug 25 - check out day

i woke up early again (last dredges of jet lag) but after doing some online research about what we should do with our last half day in Portland, i decided that we had to go see the Columbia river gorge.  Unfortunately that is a 30 min drive in the opposite direction that we are headed to after. which means that we just had to get the day started nice and early!!! Justin got up and we packed everything and were out of the airbnb by 9am or so. ate some of the chicken we had as leftovers, then we grabbed a croissant for the road and started driving east. it’s perfect weather and the scenery is great. our first stop is vista house at crown point where we get out and take some photos, enjoy the view. then we drove in to latourell falls where there’s a short hike to a waterfall. unfortunately I took us up down the wrong path so we were hiking uphill for a bit with absolutely no views lol but justin got some nice photos of plants. Eventually I realized we were going the wrong way so we turned back and go on the right track. You could walk up to the base where the water was hitting the rocks, it was actually quite cool.  After that, we headed back into town, stopping to charge at the Columbia river outlets supercharger. Also got Starbucks. Justin’s chai latte tasted like diabetes in a cup  We drove to Powell’s in downtown and checked out the bookstore (huge!!!) and then walked to a food truck area and got katsu sandwiches for lunch. popped into a blick store and got some art supplies bc no sales tax in Oregon so why not 🤑 at this point it’s around 4pm ish and we finally roll out of Portland towards tillamook. After about 2 hours of driving, we’re at tillamook cheese factory and we charge the car, go in the museum and taste some cheese. We also get ice cream and a grilled cheese. justin gets some souvenirs, I pick up a postcard. There were a lot of cows around which Justin took some photos of before we drove out. It’s golden hour at this point and the lighting is insane everything looks so good. We stop in a little town and snap some shots. It totally makes you romanticize small town life in Oregon.  After 2 more hours of driving we arrive at our hotel for the night (agate beach best western). Unfortunately we did not get a room with a beach front view but it’s ok bc we have plenty of ocean views coming later anyway. 

aug 26  I wake up early and plan the day. At 10am we go get breakfast at chalet bakery & restaurant, which is this nice little old school diner near the hotel. I got pancakes, eggs and hash browns, Justin got bacon, eggs, and a waffle. afterwards we dropped by the Walmart next door and got more grapes / last minute camping things. packed the car and back on the road, I called to check atv reservations for later in the day.  drove about 40 min to Thor’s well and looked at the tide pools. Did not see anything interesting aside from a lot of barnacle and some mussels. Thor’s well itself was really cool, Justin and I got real close to take a photo but then of course a giant wave happens to come at the moment and splash us both. Then when we’re heading back to the path, Justin jumps down from a rock directly into water somehow and soaks his shoes lol.  at around 4pm we arrive at the Oregon sand dunes and sign up to do an atv ride. the whole process to get all set up with paperwork, safety training and gear takes about 45 min. the whole time during it they keep stressing how dangerous it is and how its an extreme sport and how you can back out at any time no hard feelings. I kept looking over at Justin to see whether or not we would back out but he sat there stony faced. Low key I was scared lol I was not trying to tip over and get seriously hurt. But anyway we went out and it was a fine experience. Weather again is exceptional and the dunes are beautiful. Personally don’t think I would do it again but glad we tried it. Then we get back on the road and start driving to the campsite. I am a little annoyed bc we stop to get McDonalds and try to charge but the super charger lot is blocked off bc they were repaving it. We end up having to stop at another place and sit and wait for the charging. By the time we get to the camp site it’s dark and we have to set everything up at night. It goes pretty well though - justin’s air mattress turned out to be king sized and fills up literally the entire tent. The stars are actually incredible. You can see the whole Milky Way.

aug 27 In the morning I wake up and I make a fire for us to roast marshmallows over. i also toasted some of my leftover chicken mcnuggies (very yum) We go for a short hike to the beach which is close by to the camp site. spend some time watching the seagulls, saw this super cool moment where a seagulls dove into the water and came out with a whole starfish in its mouth!!!

there are a bunch of wild marionberry bushes around the campground and after confirming with a park ranger that it’s safe to eat, we tried it. very sour. I wanted to gather more but Justin said no…

we leave the campgrounds around 12:30pm and continue driving down towards california. we stopped at natural bridges (lol) and started hiking down to it but the path to the bridge itself was super dangerous and had signs that said DO NOT GO. back on the road, we made a stop at oregon’s tallest bridge and did a hike down to try and see a whole view of it. both justin and I peed on this hike in the woods and turns out it didn’t really have a good view of the bridge after all. but there was a beautiful abandoned beach at the end. Around 3pm we make a stop for late lunch and to charge the car in crescent city. had an incredibly dank burrito - soo good and the restaurant staff were super friendly.  we keep driving and get to eureka around 7pm. After checking in the hotel and dropping off everything in the room we go for a little walk outside to see the sunset over the water. Sunset is just ok. 

aug 28 - last day on the road! In the morning I wake up early and drive the car across the street to the supercharger and walk back. we eat breakfast at the hotel, then pack everything and I get the car back from the charger and we head out. first stop is the Rockefeller loop in Humboldt redwoods state park. we drive down the avenue of the giants on the way down and it’s actually gorgeous. Weather is divine and the light is totally giving. the Rockefeller loop is super pretty and peaceful, the kind of walk that you feel like you have to be quiet in. Except then we realized mosquitos were buzzing around us so we were like YOWZA and we speed walked it out of there really fast. kind of a bummer because it was so beautiful and we would have loved to spend more time there but justin and I are both really tasty so the mosquitoes would have eaten us up. 

Back on the road after that and it’s mostly a straight shot down to SF. We make one stop to charge in a city called Ukiah. Got in n out for lunch and then back to driving. We arrive home at 4:35pm. Yay!