Heading south for Mt. Shasta Walk Run and Parade and Fireworks for 4th of July

This has been a long standing tradition for 40 to 50 years for my family to go to Mt. Shasta for the parade, Walk Run, and Fireworks for the 4th of July. I even have a friend who is over 80 years old now and usually wins the race for his age group every time. However, he also climbs to the top of mt. Shasta about once a year too. I also have a friend in his late 60s who has the record of the most climbs up mt. Shasta in a 24 hour period. How he does this is he climbs the mountain carrying skis because he was once an alternate for the Olympics in Skiing for the U.S. too and still is an expert skier so he climbs Mt. Shasta and then skis quickly down and climbs it again over and over in a 24 hour period likely from Horse Camp. He is also a world Traveler as well and recently was in France and goes to India a couple of times a year too or more to Punjab to visit his Guru there.

So, heading to Shasta some time in the summer is something I have done pretty regularly since 1953 when my father took me swimming in Castle Lake for the first time when I was 5 years old.

So, Mt. Shasta has always been my spiritual home on Earth. However, when I went to India and Nepal and Switzerland and Scotland several times to Scotland now they also became spiritual homes for me because my father's line comes from Switzerland near Zurich and my mother's line comes from the Glascow area of Scotland with my Grandfather on my mother's side from Ayr and my Grandmother from Clydebank where they used to build ships there in Clydebank when she was growing up. I guess they built ships there until 2001.