Tuesday, April 22

We took our time getting going this morning. We didn’t have to leave until noon, so we enjoyed a leisurely morning with our ocean views. When we finally did leave, we headed up to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. Aidan was just starting to fall asleep as we got to the bridge, so we tried keeping him awake for the experience…not that he’d get much out of it, but we knew we were going to have lunch as soon as we got to the other side. We pulled off into the overlook area, checked out the views and statues, said good-bye to the ocean, and made some lunch. We had planned to head to the Oakland side of the bay for the rest of the day, and catch the Twins playing there tonight, but the weather changed our minds. The forecast was for 50s and a 70% chance of rain. We figured that either the game would be rained out, or we would be cold and miserable the whole time. It would have been fun to see the game, but our time was better spent getting on the road and trying to shorten some of the 6+ hour driving days we have coming up. Driving up around the north end of the bay reminded us a lot of the Great Salt Lake. There was water surrounding the road. The bay was really marshy in many spots, and didn’t even look like water. That area gave way to rolling hills and a lot of cities, then finally the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The mountain pass itself was much easier to navigate than the one leading south from Reno to Yosemite, but it was actually snowing at the top! It was fairly foggy as well, which made for some interesting driving. We eventually made it in to Reno, and are staying at the Rivers Edge RV Park again. That’s the one with the airport nearby. I did some laundry, we had some dinner, and it’s almost bed time. Oh, and it turned out the ball game did go on, and the Twins won 5-4. Looks like it was a pretty good game, but it was only 55 degrees and overcast, so I’m still OK with our decision to skip it. With an attendance of only 10,267 I guess most of Oakland decided to skip it, too.