From Mendocino to Kansas City

Driving through the redwoods in California

Donner Lake, California

The Interstate Highway in Utah

We left our assignment in Mendocino County on Sunday, April 5th and drove through the Redwoods for one last time. It was very scenic all the way to Reno, Nevada, actually. We went over the Donner Pass in California and stopped so I could take a photo or two of Donner Lake. Then we drove to a little town in Nevada where we spent the night in a less than pleasant hotel room. It was clean but it was old and uninviting after ten hours on the road. But it was also cheap ($49.00) and since we weren't there for anything other than to spend the night, it was tolerable.

Day two was an extremely long and boring drive through Utah. See above photo. Not exactly scenic. And...this is a fact...periodically there were series of signs along the road warning about "driving while drowzy"! I'm not kidding...there were actual signs warning about stopping periodically if you felt drowzy! That's scary, don't you think?

The next night we drove to Fort Collins, Colorado and, since Jack had reserved a room over the internet for the extra special rate of...you guessed it...$49.00...we were not expecting much. Turns out it really was an extra special rate! Lovely room. Spacious and clean with a flat screen television and high speed internet.

Tuesday evening we arrived in Kansas. Happy to be here and having a lovely time with the grandkids. We'll be here until Sunday when we head up to Nebraska for a few days...then on home.

I'll be sorting through all the photos I've taken over the past month or so and will be posting a few here and there.

Easter in on Sunday and I wish you all a wonderful day full of goodies and grace. Here's a little Easter poem for you:

"I think of the garden after the rain;

And hope to my heart comes singing,

"At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,

And the Easter bells be ringing!"

Edna Dean Procter, Easter Bells