Road Closed!

We left Jordan Valley about 9 am on Saturday (Feb 11th) and drove southwest through Oregon and Nevada to Reno.  It was Day 3 of keeping up with the road closures!  Before we left Calgary, the TransCanada was closed around Golden due to avalanches, which was part of the reason we came down through Montana versus Washington. Then of course Highway 93 was closed yesterday at the Nevada border so we went west to Oregon then south.  Well.... today both I50 and I80 were closed around Reno and Tahoe due to rock and mud slides respectively.  Ummm... it's becoming a case of: "you can't get there from here"...  How else do you get across the Sierra Nevadas in northern California?

The RV Park we stayed in last night did not have cell or internet service, so we didn't find out about these closures until we were pretty much committed to taking I80 through Nevada.  To go around would have added at least another full day, maybe more, and we really didn't want to do that either.  I kept checking the websites and though I50 was still closed ("indefinitely"), I80 reopened with one lane traffic, so we went that way.  It took us over an hour to go 10-1/2 kms just across the Nevada-California border, but the road was open, and the traffic was moving.  That was progress. The cats are being very good about all these hours in the truck...

We got to El Dorado Hills about 8 pm and it was a very nice surprise to see my brother, David, there!  He flew down to surprise our Aunt Lisa for her 70th birthday, and I had a nice visit with him too.