We left Spokane WA at about 6:30 am on Wednesday, having delayed a day to let a snowstorm roll over our route. My philosophy is ‘chase the weather, don’t run from it,’ because it will give you spectacular camera fodder.
\nWe drove to the Tricities (Pasco\/Richland\/Kennewick) and crossed the Columbia, drove to Pendleton, La Grande, and on down to McDermitt—it was dark by then, because we’d stopped for an hour in Pendleton and gotten lost after La Grande and had to backtrack. Cyber Sally needs an update—she’s still running on her original info, and now if turned off she takes about 5 minutes and some clever instructions to let her find the satellites (you have to tell her you’re a) not indoors and b) not where you darned well know you are, then ok ‘a broader search’ for satellites.—Which happens every time you get gas. So we were waiting for Sally to tell us where we were and had to figure out that workaround while moving, and by then were in Idaho. Oops.
\nThat’s why we were late getting to McDermitt. But from McDermitt it’s a hop, skip and a jump to Winnemucca.<\/p>\n
Now, Winnemucca is surrounded by mountains (snow-covered on this evening). Beautiful. We stayed at the Motel 6 (35.00 a night for a single, 50.00 for a double) and had supper at The (Flying) Pig…best barbecue this side of Casper WY, and from-scratch. House speciality is the pulled pork sammy (to die for), and the ribs (NOT baby-back: 6 is a meal). It’s a detour-300-miles to reach this restaurant sort of place, because you’re not going to find food this good any closer.<\/p>\n
We left Winnemucca at about 6:30 am looking for breakfast and I am here to tell you, do not stop at the McDonald’s in Lovelock NV. We then picked up 95 south (in the morning fog) and drove south toward Las Vegas, but turned off it toward Bishop CA, and drove down the backside of the Sierra. We reached San Bernadino late-ish, and hit rush hour traffic on our way, via 15 and 5 into San Diego. That was a zoo—-and—I had just glanced up at our insurance papers on the visor and discovered our car insurance had expired on the 17th. We were in rush hour traffic: I opted not to tell Jane until we reached the hotel.<\/p>\n
We called our insurance company and became legal.<\/p>\n
We had a glorious suite: we were so comfy in the hotel. Each of us had a bathroom. That was great! We loved the con.<\/p>\n
And on the advice of locals, we got underway at 10 am and headed past LA on I-5, going upward toward San Francisco. We had no incidents, traffic moved, and we did find the Farrell’s Ice Cream (to die for!) in Santa Clarita, past the university and a little drive up the hill, about five miles east of I-5. <\/p>\n
Well-stuffed, we nursed our ailing navigator, Cyber Sally, up I-5 to the cutoff to the San Mateo Bridge, visited Jane’s brother for a few days, then launched out over the San Mateo Bridge (4.00 toll going in, none going out) to I-80, which we took over Donner Pass, through Truckee, Reno, and finally Winnemucca.<\/p>\n
We repeated the barbecue experience, then headed (we thought) for Pullman WA to have supper at our favorite burget place, but by then we were so tired, we started investigating how Sally was going to send us, and discovered we’d have to backtrack 20 miles from Colfax WA once we got onto state 75. Nay! By now we were opting for home. So we just trucked back the way we’d come, up across the Columbia and on to home…had a supper at the Swinging Door, where they’ve added a new Mexican menu list (this place violates chef Ramsey’s ‘keep it simple’ rule of menus, and whatever you want, they’ve got)—so we tried that—it was good—and we went home and crashed.<\/p>\n
By then I knew it was convention crud round two.<\/p>\n
But that was the itinerary and the restaurant report. Jane’s got the pix, or will have. She’s really tired, because she drove almost all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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