Car Mileage: 489 Miles
Car Travel Time: 10 hours
I woke up around when I wanted to get up: 6:10. This will be a long day as we are aiming to go to Medford today. At least I have reserved a hotel room there. We had planned on going the day before, but with the storms which went through, I was concerned about snow and ice on the road.
I had my breakfast, then finished getting the car packed. It is stuffed. I thought we said after the last two times of going to Andrea’s that that was the last of the car being stuffed. Sherri said this was the last time.
We left at 8:45 with Steven driving. Korra and Friday, the dogs, are with us. They both travel well. Friday is with us because Rachel will be flying into Portland Wednesday night. The trip is uneventful with Steven driving. Sherri takes over driving when we reach Livingston where she gets a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Sherri drives to Costco in Elk Grove. Then I took over driving to Leatherby’s.
We get there about 11:50, a ten minute drive from Costco. Here we have lunch. We decided to take advantage of their Two for Tuesday’s special. Sherri and I share a chicken pesto sandwich while Steven has a four piece chicken strip. While the sandwiches and fries are good, it is the sundaes which are the main attractions. Steven gets a sundae and Sherri and I share a sundae-a good size one. Two scoops of ice cream-chocolate chips and cookies and cream, along with two syrups-peanut butter and fudge. This will fill me up for today.
I drive past Sacramento to just north of Red Bluff. Both Sherri and Steven slept for part of the way.I have been trying to break up the driving into two hour segments for each driver. Even though I felt good enough to drive further, it is time to break it up.
Steven drives past Redding and into the mountains north of Lake Shasta. We noticed the snow on the mountain sides. I think I see Mt Lassen-not sure. But Mt Shasta is very evident and very covered with a coat of white. Christmas card material-unfortunately the pictures from a moving car did not come out great.
At the Collier rest stop, I take over driving. I do not think this is my driving, but I think I ticked off one trucker. I was passing him, not quickly, but moving past him. He wanted to move over. Once I passed him, he moved in right behind me and honked and flashed his lights. There was a truck right beside me, so I have nowhere else to go, so I kept driving at my speed and moved over when I passed the truck. The truck behind me took off . By the way, I was going 65.
We get to Medford, actually Central Point, a bit before 7pm. We quickly checked into the La Quinta hotel and moved our stuff in. It is a pet friendly hotel and we bring in Korra and Friday. Once settled in, it is time for dinner. When in Medford, it means Kaleidoscope Pizza. So we left Korra and Friday in the room and got our eats. They have a 10” special which sounded good. So we ordered that for the three of us and a salad. All around content.
Then off to get gas at Costco before heading back to the hotel by about 8:30. Apparently the hotel has been trying to reach me because Friday has been barking all the time we have been out. I guess now we know that we need to take the dogs with us. The rest of the night we read and did stuff. By 10, it is lights out.
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