Back to Fallon 9-14-08

We hit the road at 10:15. We headed east on highway 4, then took 160 north over the Antioch Bridge, which incidentally the toll for us with a trailer was $8.25. The first pic is overlooking the delta area and the second is of the wind farm that we don’t remember seeing there before.

From 160 we hit highway 12 east to highway 5 north and then we picked up highway 80 in Sacramento east all the way into Nevada. The levee road/delta area never really changes much, which is nice and being Sunday we didn’t have tons of traffic to deal with in the city.

We would have liked to meander back to Fallon up highway 88 through the Gold Country and over the mountains, but Larry had broken a tooth a couple days ago and we needed to get back to Fallon and find a dentist before the filling fell out or it became painful. We have family in Pine Grove, CA and Minden, NV and it would have been nice to visit, but we didn’t want to rush…we haven’t been through that area in a long time and we want to explore the next time we get there.

Interstate 80 through the Sierra’s is beautiful; the light was weird so I apologize for the reflections in some of the pictures. Remember most of these I take through the windows or I have the camera hanging out the window in the wind while we cruise along!

We stopped at a rest area at Donner Summit and had a great lunch…left over French Dip that was as great as the first time around even after a few days of hanging around in the frig., thanks Uncle Dan! So the rest of these pics are of the Sierra Nevada range and the Truckee River.

We arrived at the house in Fallon at 3:30. Larry pulled the trailer across the driveway and in three hours we had everything hauled into the house and put away. We traveled 267 miles from Antioch and with stopping a half hour to eat it took us almost five hours, but that time is pulling a trailer, we travel at slower speeds than cars.

It was a nice drive home and we were tired, but we found everything here at the house just fine. Not many weeds had grown in our absence this time and the lawn was green, unlike last time because we didn’t have the timer for the sprinklers set often enough. So time will tell how long it will be before we are on the road again!