But first yet another Benicia day begun wetly

which let up in plenty of time for packing and loading and L.’s grocery shopping, then Tuesday

brought us silken fogs,

other hours of loading up and, finally in the Tundra,

away across the misty valley

to Heather Glen for the usual small lunch [[not shown] then dry roads to Donner and the sun.

Down the other side where gas was already 80 cents cheaper by the gallon, the Wadsworth

Bypass, up to Nixon

and beyond with barely another vehicle all the way

to Empire and beyond…

Gerlach then

Wall Spring, a pretty easy trip between storms and though the backup between Davis and the causeway cost us an extra twenty minutes it was still only five hours…plus those twenty minutes.  Of course at 4:30 one then had a lot to unload and put away, all in a day.