Considering a Road Trip

With the lead time for NASFiC being only a year, I have to give some consideration of how we're going to get there. There is no direct rail access, only some indirect routes like via Vancouver BC that we're likely ruling out from the start, so I considered what sort of road trip we could make for the drive from Fernley to Winnipeg.

( Possibly a five-day drive )

I'm not saying this is how we will go to Pemmi-Con, just a check of the plausibility of making the trip over one possible route. And it's likely that if possible, we'll come back by a different route. Also, we want to allow time for a potential week-long trip up to Churchill on the train, which is a significant expedition of its own.

Old Smokey

It's nowhere near as smoky in Fernley as it is in the Reno/Sparks area, but an AQI of 155 is still considered unhealthy.

( Could be Worse )

I wore an N95 mask when I walked to the post office to collect the mail today. I would have done so even without worries of COVID still being out there. I smell a lot less smoke through the mask than I do without it.

Lisa is having a bad reaction to the smoke herself — even worse than me — and is staying hunkered down behind air conditioning and filters to try and keep the smoke at bay. It's just as well that we don't have the Astro back from the shop yet, as we have nowhere to go and are probably safer staying home.

There's a chance of rain on Tuesday-Wednesday of next week, and I hope it is correct, and washes as much of this smoke out of the air as possible.