Trip Log - Birmingham,AL to Etna,CA part II

Part II: Birmingham to California

Nov.3, Day 4

- The plan was to leave Las Vegas early, but it did not happen.
- The route I planned for the day included visits to Death Valley, Sequoia, and King's canyon, and camping at Yosemite National Parks. Due to snow storms were were able to visit only Death Valley.
- Death Valley was incredible. It seemed like we were on another planet or something out of the movie "Lord of the Rings"(Matt said). It took several hours to drive through it. The drive was great (see pictures)
- Once we were through Death Valley the weather began to change. I had to drive through another near Blizzard on our way to highway 395 West of Death Valley. It was terrible. The sun went down while we were in the middle of a steep mountain pass. The roads started to Ice up and we almost had to stop for the night and continue on the next morning. We made it through and drove on through Reno, Nevada to Susanville, CA where we stopped for the night.
- We took many pictures today.

Nov. 4, Day 5

- We slept in this morning until 10:30am. We are not far from the Ranch so we planned to take out time.
- Tried to go to Lassen National Park but it was closed due to snow storms.
- Stopped in Mt.Shasta City to try on snowboard boots. Walked around town for awhile.
- Arrived at the JH Ranch at 3:30pm
- Dan Price cooked Chili for Dinner, I moved into the Grean Bean (where we will live for the winter).

Summary:
Overall it was a great trip across the US, lots of adventure. Curt and David, you missed out. Hopefully this was the first of many cross country trips. There are so many more things to see. Maybe we will go through Montana and Wyoming next time? I will be adding the pictures very soon.