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...

With the embers in the engine finally out and the excitement of a 5-alarm fire dying down, we got back on the road.  We laughed and laughed.  No more challenging the universe, Traci.  The goal changed to pulling into Grandpa...

(Heads up - the pictures are weird on this one. I'm experimenting with using Flickr to store the pictures so the posts load faster. I don't have it all figured out yet.)   With Halloween approaching, Goblin State Park seemed...