USA Day 6: First stop after breakfast (with shabby coffee): Taco Bell! Easy to reach thanks to the numerous food exits on the highway. Convenient!
Subsequently, we crossed the California border and continued towards Lassen National Forest. A large part of the forest here has burned down, which is really frightening to look at. According to Vista Point, this happens every 10-15 years. The last fire was in 2009 and is called the Sugar Loaf Fire.
For lunch, we stopped at a waterfall and relaxed a bit.
Towards evening, we looked for a romantic spot to sleep and found a hotel in a very, very, very small gold rush town, founded around 1850.
The hotel itself was built in 1874, and an elderly woman opened the door for us. With a smoky and eerie voice, she told us the history of the hotel and each of the rooms. One room is said to be haunted; there, the water needs 15 minutes to warm up. She has seen an old woman sitting by the window in the hallway several times. Oh my God!
Unfortunately, it was the only hotel in the small town of Greenville. And so we spent the night huddled together, shivering (with fear and cold).
Previously, we ordered a pizza at a small diner to regain our strength for the adventurous night ahead.
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