BACKROADS
I have always loved backroads because when I was growing up one of the family’s fun things to do – usually on a Sunday – was go for a drive out in the country and Dad & Mom were always curious about side roads wondering where they led to, and I inherited their curiosity about that. So wherever we’ve lived over the years, I’ve delighted in finding the backroads in the area and today I’m showing you a couple of backroads I’ve been on in the area where I currently live. Rock Creek Road out of Milton, Calif. My great Grandfather, J.K. Smedley, took this road in 1874 on his way to Yosemite, and I traced his route in 1990 – driving this little one-lane road with just enough room to pass. It was paved – more or less – when I drove it, but was a dusty dirt road in his day, of course. Approaching the community of Oak Grove it becomes a striped two-lane road . . . . . . but turns back into a one lane road again going across Salt Valley and on up into the foothills. Ma...
