[TR] My TR Tour Day 2

[jimbpps at cox.net]

Lone Pine to Susanville:

I have to apologize for the delay for Day 2 and 3. They of course occurred in the correct chronological order, but unfortunately, my internet access was not quite working just right and/or the laptop had issues, take your pick as both happened at different times. But I think I know the 'work arounds' now so hopefully I will be a little more on-time!

We keft Lone Pine at around 8:00 AM, it was a beautiful day about 70 degrees, with great sun, a few clouds and Mt. McKinley in sharp relief against the blue sky. 

As we drove north on 395 we would occasionally see hot rods and custom cars. Some were being towed and some were, like our cars, being driven. When we got to Reno we passed a casino with a very large parking lot absolutely chock full of street rods, exotic custom cars, numerous pop-up tents, etc. Later after we stopped at a rest stop, John, told me that gatering must have been the 'Hot August Nights' car show! John, said if he had been thinking when he made the reservations he would have set it up so we could have stayed in Reno and gone to the car show! He was also sure that he could 'double the clubs money' if we would have stopped in Reno!! As we drove north of Reno we continued to see more exotic custom cars on their way south, probably on their way to 'Hot August Nights' too.

North of Lone Pine 395 climbs to some 8100 feet, it was chilly enough that at one our stops I had to move a piece of my luggage in the passengers side so that I could roll up the passengers window as I was too cold to be comfortable. Later that afternoon I turned on the heater as it was just plain cold!

In Susanville we arrived to a 'sold-out' motel, It was full of fire fighters! The very harried waitress said that there were over 100 fire fighters at that motel/restaurant complex alone. There were supposedly a large bunch of forrest fires actively burning in the area.

Tomorrow, on to Redmond with a stop at Crater Lake!

Jim