California Dreamin'

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When the bus crossed from Oregon into California on Route 5, the first California exit sign said "Exit 776."

Seven hundred seventy-six exits in one state?  The Garden State Parkway in New Jersey has 172 exits, and I think the Parkway is interminable.

Good thing I'm traversing California in five legs:  Redding, San Francisco, Salinas, San Luis Obispo and San Diego.  Here's some pics from the first leg, Northern California and Redding:

Mt. Shasta, a mountain with two peaks, one of them an old volcano.

There's no plaque to explain what this is.  But it's in the train/bus depot in Redding, and I'm speculating that it's an old locomotive steam engine.  The casting on one of the wheels says it was made in 1902.