Sunday, Dec. 28 More driving……..
Well that’s how it goes. We are on a mission to find warm weather, and we’re slowly finding it today. As I’m writing this we are nearing Sacramento, CA and there is NO snow anywhere but still quite cold and windy outside, I’m guessing 5 degrees celcius. So we are driving tonight late again to get as far south as we can and so closing to the SUN and WARM.
Today’s trip involved going through the 3 mountain passes from Oregon into California. The first 2 were easy, bare or wet roads, rain, but the last pass by Mount Shasta was a tricky one. We had wet snow, lots of wind, and a broken altenator so no power in our friends’ motorhome. It broke at the top of the pass, so without turning anything on they coasted down the mountain and into Redding, CA where we found – with help of our good friend the GPS – an autoparts store open until 4 on Sunday afternoon (this is at 3:30 p.m.) Earl was able to change the alternator in about 20 minutes flat and off we went again. Good thing everyone had brought tools along too. Our windshieldwipers wanted to be part of the game too so they decided to stop but after a while got going again, when it stopped raining actually.
And now we are driving past orange groves to Sacramento area. We actually took some oranges straight from a tree in someone’s backyard – superfresh and they weren’t home, plus it was dark and we were quick.
We are looking forward to camping finally but it is still quite cold so we are wimping out one more night and opting for a motel, with a pool perhaps.