17. Santa Rosa and Going Home.
Our visit with the CA kids was very nice. We were there for a couple of nights (because company and fish stinks after three days - throw them out), and also called the trip done, because it was getting wetter, and cooler, especially going north. But mostly we were satiated, and we were simply ready to go home.
A weather system was moving in to bring an expected 2' of snow over Tahoe, so we got ahead of that, staying on secondary roads for awhile.
Starting in the burned out hills north of Santa Rosa (as this was part of our visit to the kids, and their involvement with a piece of the regrouping and rebuilding).
Then went east and down into Calistoga, thence Highway 128 to Winters, and other rural agricultural areas to a Walmart destination in Dixon along the Interstate.
We restocked and asked the management about overnighting, and while Walmart was fine with it, city/county ordinances were not. We kept moving, ending up east of Reno at another Walmart by about 10 PM.
The next day was all the way across Nevada and into the Great Salt Lake Desert west of Salt Lake City, where we have another time share.
In Salt Lake we visited with Mother, and then before we knew it, we were home again in Wyoming.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's nothing like travel to make you appreciate home.
There's ol'
Tow-Mater in the pines, and
Fairweather June with her temporary orange striping.
Lil' Spen, the 1940's era Spen civilian utility trailer, and a couple of parts campers currently acting as storage units -
Ta-Ton-Ka and the Skamper Camper, of
Lil' Queeny build fame.
And one of the simple pleasures of Wyoming is how many Spring seasons we get each year, there's at least 4-5 every year, where the return to winter forces you back inside to complete work on some of those unfinished winter projects, and then it's back outside for another Spring day, to get work done in the yard and garden, with beautiful clear skies and warm sun, forcing clothing changes at least twice every day! (Jeans, shorts, jeans).
That snow will be gone by afternoon, or at least by the next day. And we had forgotten how comfortable our living room recliners are!
But tiny home living went well! Tomorrow I'll wrap up this trip report by casting some thoughts about our experiences regarding that. One thing's for certain, we know we can sell the big travel trailer.
