Flying Visit to California (With Snow)

The weather forecast through Christmas is such that it did not look like we would have any good opportunity to delivery our Christmas presents to my family in the Sacramento Valley. I could have mailed them, but I do not like doing so, and besides, one of them is a gift card from a store in Yuba City that doesn't have online sales, so I needed to be there in person during business hours. If we could have run down on Thursday, that would have been fine, but I do need to work from home when I'm working from home. Lisa offered to drive us down on Friday afternoon in the Big Orange Van on Friday, because the BOV is a full-time 4WD vehicle with big snow tires and if it can't get through, it's because the road is closed. (So-called "R3" road conditions — 4WD and chains — are rare, and if things get that bad, they usually just close the road.) So on Friday afternoon about 2:30, I cleared up my Day Jobbe work and we hit the road again.

( 14 Hours from Fernley to Fernley via Sacramento and Yuba City )

Our very late dinner/early breakfast in Sparks helped keep us going for the final leg of the trip home, the 30 miles to Fernley, where we arrived about 4:30 AM. We quickly unpacked, I rekindled the fire, and as soon as we could do so, we went to bed. No alarms were set for Saturday.