DEJA VU

Donner Pass

Tedious familiarity.  We are back in Los Banos KOA.  I think we are even in the same site. It wasn't great when we stayed here in June, and it's still not great.  At least we stopped driving for a while!  We left Truckee this morning around 10 AM, but we didn't get here until after 4 PM.  There are fires in the Sacramento area and Google re-routed us away from the I-5 to the 99 for part of the way.  This added time to the drive but avoided the fires. We were all hot and tired by the time we got into our campsite.

The first 50 miles or so was all downhill!  We were at over 7000 feet in the Truckee area and we traveled down to an altitude of less than 1000.  There were 5%, 6%, and 7% grades down, down, downhill, past trees, trees, and more trees!  My furry ears were  popping!

We are going to miss the trees!

We had a few minor disasters along the way. First, a huge bump on the freeway caused the wine cooler to pop off the wall again.  This time with three full bottles of wine flying across the room. The cooler landed with a bang on the counter top and two bottles of white landed unbroken in the kitchen sink.  A bottle of red rolled under the counter and got wedged under the slide out but was also unbroken.  The only casualty was my ceramic water bowl.  It got chipped by the wine bottles and spilled water all over the place.

And then, the guides on the slide out in the bedroom broke again and Jim had to jack up the slide and replace the glides.  Wish that wouldn't happen, it's so dangerous to fix.  Jim got it back in working order once again.  And one of the windows in the bedroom wouldn't lock this morning.  It's a good thing Jim knows how to fix these things!

Well, everything is fixed now and even the wine cooler is working again, so  it's time to relax and have a long cool drink of water and a couple of dog biscuits. Now that's a happy hour!