March 31, 2007, I am in Redding, California. a city set in a beautiful location, surrounded by hills including the snow-capped Mount Lassen and Mount Shasta, both active volcanos. I expected this city to be run-down but it's not -- it's clean and with lots of trees and some very nice homes. but it's all somewhat stepfordwife-ish i think. My taxi cab driver in Redding told me, "We are rednecks but we are friendly." The symbol of Redding--what put this small town of some 100,000 people on the map-- is the sundial pedestrian bridge by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and it did not disappoint me.