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In my brother’s backyard.

Happy to be here!

… I am reminded that palm trees make everything better!

Hello Mt. Shasta. What a handsome mountain you are! Just a peak of light left to capture this photo on the iPhone from inside the car… of course I wasn’t driving at the time… I mean, I am not that foolish. Of course my co-pilot had no trouble letting me know that there would be a better shot coming up in a mile or two!

Day 1 of the road trip is over and all went very well. We covered a lot of ground and are now settling into our hotel room in Redding, Ca. Had lunch at Shari’s on the way down, which actually turned into breakfast as we both had eggs. Dad had killer sausage and I had a slab of bone-in ham with frightfully good potato pancakes. NomNom… Yummers all around!

Back on the road and all was fine until we hit the downside of the Siskiyous where it got dark, the roads windy (as in “turny” rather than “blowy”), the rain got very wet and the roads got very splashy. Not a real fun hour or so. But, once we came down out of the hills the weather lifted and we arrived at our hotel almost like clockwork once we enabled google maps. We decided to eat dinner at the hotel and after a few cocktails decided we had the made the right decision. Back in our room by 8:30pm, Dad was up for some basketball while I settled in with “A Christmas Carol”.

God bless us, every one…

Partly sunny now, but showers are in the forecast.

I am taking a road trip with my Dad. Similar to one that he and my Mom have done several times in the past. (I joined them once and we all had a blast.) Mom isn’t here anymore but we thought we would take a roots tour as we sojourn to Eagle Rock to have our first Christmas down south with my brother Scott, his wife Margi and their son, Robert. What follows will hopefully be the humurous stories of my Dad and me as we wind our way down the 5, hang in LA for the holidays, and then take the Coast Starlight northbound back to Portland, and for me, on to Seattle. Ten full days of the road, the family, Christmas fun and of course, trains. Oh, and Dad is turning 90 in the middle of it. Bon Voyage!!