back to Idaho

Today is "go home" day.

As always, we enjoyed our visit with family, but the time comes to pack up and go home.

This time we are taking grandson Griff with us. He will spend some time with us as well as with two of his aunts families (our washington and oregon daughters).

We will go camping this weekend. Finally it looks like we will have some decent camping weather. My 2nd most favorite camping partner is going with us (Miriam hold the place as my favorite camping partner). David and I have not been camping together for a long time.

So today it is north on 101 to I80, then over the Bay Bridge to Oakland and on to Sacramento, over the Donner pass to Reno (we won't even slow down) and on through a lot of Nevada. Somewhere along the line we will buy some fuel and keep on going.

Even leaving here after breakfast we should be home before dark. Going this direction the worst of the traffic is the first part and we will go through that mid morning.

It will be a cool but sunny day on this end, but Idaho is expecting thunderstorms, so it will be interesting.

And just to make it all go easily, I have loaded Mark Twain's Huck Finn to listen to on the iPod/pickup stereo.

It will be good. Miriam and Griff are both good traveling partners.