The "The Road to Oregon - Heading Home", edition.

Good Monday morning. How's the eclipse viewing going?  Vegas, the land of eternal sunshine is having thunderstorms today. Yes. I'm bitter. I got to watch it on TV and on the iPad with the NASA feed. And my kid texted me and sent a photo yeah. She's in central Oregon. So anyway. Yeah. We stayed exactly one day in Corvallis. The factors that decided such a ridiculous stay was...Shawn would be starting her new job, number of dialysis treatments and the amount if supplies we needed to transport and finally how long we kept the rental car. Pick up car on Friday, on the road Saturday and Sunday. Corvallis on Monday. On the road Tuesday and Wednesday return car Thursday. A one week rental. 

We say our goodbyes. {{Cry}}. And Brian and I head out depending on good ole phone GPS. We stop somewhere to get breakfast sandwiches and we're off on Interstate 5. We immediately take note of the many trucks hauling logs. Lots and lots of trucks. Hauling lots and lots of logs.  Oh and passed  one or two pot farms...and dispensaries in the middle of the country....   The landscape was flat farmland with mountains in the distance. But then within a 1/2 hour we were back in the wretched mountains. It was a bit better on the interstate, but there were the run off lanes and impressive curved roads going down the mountain. Oh. And trees. Lots and lots of trees. Did I mention there were trees for as far as I could see?  Except for the random bare spots where the trees had been cut down. And I forgot to mention that when we arrived in Corvallis we smelled grass and trees. It was intoxicating. The smell was missed. 

I posted a house on top of a mountain when we were at a rest stop. But the best was yet to come. It was a nice sunny day. I noticed some odd clouds in the distance. Odd enough that I took a picture of it. As we got closer to clouds we realized that that yes, it was clouds...clouds over Mt Shasta. Mt. Shasta put to shame every mountain we climbed on this trip. This mountain had snow..in the middle of August!  And not to far from it was a dormant volcano. And more mountains!  Lol. And guess what. Not to far from Mt. Shasta was where we had to turn off to head back to Reno. On a two lane highway. The good news, I guess, was instead of almost a full day in the mountains, this drive would be just under 2 hours. But still...(whine).  

The road wasn't as twisty turny but it was up and down with us reaching upwards of 5000 feet altitude. My ears are just now recovering. The highlights of the route were remnants of forest fires and new growth, people living off the grid, and a rest stop in the middle of nowhere. Now here's the fun part.  We would be going through Susanville again, but not down that wretched, scary road that we had to climb on the way to Oregon. Well. Susanville backs right up to a mountain so we had to drive down the mountain on another road. It was a just a tad better. It was shorter but curvier. I don't ever need to be in Susanville California ever again. Ugh. 

Once we left Susanville the road flattened out and the landscape was not as green. We were on the way to Reno. We finally made it to the hotel, then headed to dinner. We were cold. Turned on the heat in the room.  Don't judge!  Lol. We considered treatment, but again, after a long and stressful drive, no one wanted to unload all of that equipment and set it up, do treatment, then break everything down and load it back into the car. We slept well to get prepared for the next day, the final leg of the trip. 

Oh and look..the Sun is trying to come out now...{{shakes fist at the sky}}. Enjoy your day! 

Mt. Shasta

This is what we saw from a distance 

And this is the dormant volcano..not to far from Mt Shasta

Makes you feel good.....and check out what's below. 

Oh!  Back in Southern Nevada