Reno, Nevada

Here was today, in outline format:

• Woke up, drank coffee, and hung out with the family
• Visited my brother-in-law at his work, NHS, where he kindly gave us a spirited tour of everything (including their skate museum and their offices)
• Said goodbye to everyone in Santa Cruz (which was no fun at all, my sister and her husband and their son being three of the raddest people around)
• Dropped my other sister off at the airport in San Jose so she could return to Kansas City
• Drove through mad traffic all up in Stockton and the like
• Passed through the Sierra Nevadas
• Saw Donner Pass and Truckee Lake--I tried my hardest but still couldn't put myself in a settler's shoes; the terrain was rugged and unforgiving and terrifying--and I'm a contemporary twenty-year-old driving in a car on the luxury of a paved interstate, so I can't even imagine trying to cross the Sierra Nevadas with a covered wagon on mere paths
• Ended up in Reno, Nevada
• Went to Denny's with El Padre, where our waitress was named Yo Yo
• Had absolute treasures of conversations with Dad all along the way

So yeah. It was a pretty good day.

Independent Trucks from Independent trucks

San Jose, 880 North

Cattle and ominous smoke in Sacramento, looking East

El Padre piense

Sierra Nevada sunset