Are we there yet?

5.28.2024

Left LA at about 7:30am! Determined to get to Weed in daylight! (I vividly remember the time I was driving up there in the dark. The shoulders’ rumble strips saved my life, as I was nodding off. Hence the daylight concern).

Had to get gas at Costco because they were closed on Memorial Day [previous day]. Bad traffic getting to the freeway up Lincoln (bad choice). Once I got on the 405 it was easy breezy.

The 5 was its usual sunny, flat, boring self. The trucks weren’t too bad.

The hills in Los Banos provided their welcome respite to the eyes - I always end up taking photos there.

 

The rice fields north of Sacramento were wet and green.

 

And, finally, into the mountains:

So much snow on Mt. Shasta!

 

I got to Weed at 5:45.

Day 1 complete. 10 hours, 611 miles.

Every week, I’ll post the altered photographs created from each day of my recent road trip [except some of the 8 days in upstate NY]. This is a modified version of what I'm posting on Substack (link). Over there it's a photographic journal of the trip with more verbiage.

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While you wait for next week’s Day 2 installment - Weed, CA to Hope, BC - get previews on FindPenguins.