Literally as we fired up the Chief to drive away from Reno I checked the website and the chains restriction was lifted on Donner Pass.  Until I saw that, we had been planning to head to Lake Tahoe, overnight and then...

When I walked into the grocery store, the 2 or 3 people near the registers just sort of... stared.  One woman blinked several times.  I smiled (not that anyone could tell), half waved, brushed off some snow and made my...

The goal with mom was to see as much as possible in the final 2 weeks of her time with us.  This is her first visit to northern California so we have to see: all of San Fran, do a...