7:10 am - Friday, Feb 9th
The truck is packed, and we are heading out!
Roll on Columbia
Three hours later we hit Oregon...
It was the site of our only major fight,
(related to Candace's inability to read a map).
Sunny California
End of Day 1
We made it through the Siskiyous just fine
but got stuck
in Yreka, about 30 miles north of our goal for the day (Weed),
because I-5 was closed due to
snow.
We had to buy snow-chains for the rental truck (a mere $75)
which we never ended
up using, except as a door stop in
our new Tucson digs three days later.
This picture is
from the Weather Channel on
Saturday morning, just before we headed south.
I-5, Saturday Morning
Trucks as far as the eye can see going south (at 2 mph!)
Mount Shasta
Not making much forward progress here,
but we never had to mount
the chains,
and we got through to Visalia after about 11 more hours of driving.
I-5, Sunday Morning
Heading up the Grapevine into LA
I-10, Sunday Afternoon
We zoomed through LA and by Palm Springs and headed east to the
promised land!
Our first actual Arizona Sunset (Sunday night) as "residents".
We ended up quitting late Sunday night about and hour from Tucson
at Casa Grande. We then made the final run on Monday morning.
We unloaded the truck into our "Golf Villa"...pictures follow.
Before the unloading
Mike's moved in!
Wine Cellar under construction
It took about 3 days to build this monster
and we still have about three times as much wine as will fit in it
back in Seattle. We brought down about 300 bottles this trip.
Candace, Dewey, Jan, and Molly
We played golf with Jan/Dewey and then had dinner
with them and Dewey's daughter (Molly).
They just bought a house in Tucson so we'll be seeing them
a lot once we get down there permanently.
