We actually got on the road at a decent time this year – Steven and Raymond both have jobs and Steven is seriously challenged in the 4th dimension, so I had pretty low expectations – but we were in front of steve’s place loading up the car right around 1:30 – I managed to screw up this temporal advantage later but that’s me. Ray has a new car and she was the vehicle of choice for this years trip – if we have 4 people we do 2 cars but when we are three we need to fit into a confined space.

Ray’s new infinity is quite confined – to the point where my big shaggy sheepskin lined bomber jacket is sitting in Steve and Cynde’s place – no room at the inn. I’ll grab a phone picture to show the near limit packing that went into us being able to hit the road – it was close. Still we made it and were rolling but – NO CAFFIENE…

So we (OK, I decided) that we needed to find a Peet’s, which we did in Solano. Don’t do it. The roads around the Westfield Mall are designed to take you in and never let you out – I think we blew about an hour of our advantage to grab a latte and a PS/3 game. I suspect this pissed off Ray more than he was willing to admit but I really needed caffiene.

Other than that and a quick leg stretch, Ray did the trip to Sparks in one – not extreeme but pretty hard core. Got to ride in the front and the back and the car is sweet – we’ll probably switch out during our roll across Nevada today to Wendover by the Flats.

Anyway – gotta 3S – Here’s a picture from my hotel room, which other than the view is pretty comfy – ish.

View from JA's Nugget Courtyard