Well, it is time to go, time to head east, time to leave Jennifer to her life, and time to get back to our lives. So after a breakfast of coffee and rolls at a neighborhood coffee shop with Jennifer, we bid her farewell and head out of San Francisco on I80. I80 will be our home for the next several days as we try to get home in a week rather than at the more leisurely two-week pace that we used on the way west to San Francisco.
It's Memorial Day weekend so the traffic heading out of San Francisco and through Oakland and Berkeley and beyond is very dense. We leave the Berkeley area hills and drive into the Sacramento Valley of flat land and marshes and irrigated fields. And then we get into the Sierra Nevada foothills and start our trek from 30 feet above sea level to 7,230 feet at the Donner Summit. We have a quick lunch at McDonald's in Colfax CA and drive through the Sierra Nevada's and past Lake Tahoe and into Truckee. It's fun to see the railroad tracks that we travelled at Thanksgiving 2007 when we took the Amtrak from Indianapolis to Emeryville CA for our first Thanksgiving in Berkeley with Jennifer.
Our destination for the day is Reno, Nevada. We planned a short day thinking that we would want to explore Reno a bit before moving on to Salt Lake City. But when we arrived in Reno - actually Sparks NV - we checked into the hotel and immediately took naps! At 5PM we woke up and decided that the day was meant for resting. Reno can wait till our next visit - or never, perhaps.
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