We finally arrived in Reno, Nevada around 9 PM last night, after leaving Brookings at 7 am yesterday morning. Traveling 101 to Highway 299 near Eureka was a 135 mile trek of mountain ranges with curve speeds dropping to 20 miles per hours. The edge drop offs were stories high with little to no guard rails for support. Traveling to Reno represented 13 hours of mountain climbing. Exhaustion does not begin to explain how beat Larry was when we arrived...I was exhausted too; but I did not do 12 hours of straight driving. The top picture shows how really close the rocks are to the edge of the road...observe the white line in relationship to the rocks. The bottom picture is no joke on the curves traveled. This sign represented 5 miles of tight road curves that had 20-35 mile an hour speeds...now apply this speed to 70% of the trip...luckily near the end of the trip we did have freeway speeds in areas without road construction. Most of Northern California and Nevada had road construction, reducing travel lanes to one. All in all, we are happy to be here and are enjoying the weather...85-89 degrees.
PS We did encounter an overheating problem about 60 miles from Reno, so we had to wait for the water temperatures and transmission fluid temp to go down. Once cooled, we arrived with no further problems.
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