Escaping the Heat

We started this trip in the blazing heat and we've ended it in much the same way.  Checking the weather forecast for Corning, it was going to be 110 degrees.  Since we are heading down I-5, perhaps one of the most boring interstates in the country, we would be wallowing in heat the whole day.  Not a fun prospect.  So, we got off to an early start and hoped for the best.  Traffic was very light, perhaps because it is Sunday.

Again, like on the first day, we saw a lot of signs by farmers carping about needing more water.  Face it, we live in a big desert.  The norm in this state is for no summer rainfall.  Why are farmers growing crops like rice where the fields need to be continually flooded?  Because there's money in it.  The farmers want more water to enrichen their cofers.  It doesn't matter to them that the draining of water away from the Sacramento delta has decimated the salmon habitat.  Oh well, enough soap box stuff.

We just rode.  Stopping only for gas and a snack, we made it home a little after noon.  Our snack stop was in Winters, California, a small town off I-505.  The local hangouts were packed, people waiting in the street to get in.  Oh, yeah, it's Fathers' Day.  We stopped in a little Mexican meat market that also serves food.  There were a lot of families stopping in to get meat to barbeque later.  I had a taco, it was great.  El Pueblo Meat Market & Deli, 43 Main Street.

From Winters, we headed home in a single, very long, stretch.  Approaching Los Gatos on Highway-17, at Curtner, the traffic ahead was at a dead stop.  Fortunately we noticed in tome and got off to take surface roads the rest of the way.  The tank was almost dry by this time so I pulled into a gas station.  When I looked at the trip odometer I had set at the beginning of this trip, it read 4,600.0.

We are at our homes, safe and sound.