scouting / day 2

Looks like I'm starting to make a habit of this - "this" referring to my finding wi-fi access and writing a post when I'm about three hours past dead-tired.

Today was an interesting one - we didn't cover as much ground as we would have liked, but that was largely in part to getting stuck in a foot of snow for 40-some minutes... and then having to back track to East US 50... only to find that at 6,000+ feet it was snowing and foggy enough to white anything out further than two feet in-front of the car.

Also, to add to the "interestingness" our car has no heat - 95% of the time, not a problem when living in North Hollywood. When making your way through an altitude of 8,000 feet - it begins to become an issue. You can't defrost the windshield. You can't feel your toes. You can't remember why you didn't get the heat fixed before deciding to drive through the Sierra Mountains.


So Amanda and I - not ready to drive through more death-provoking fog in pitch-black - decided to crash at a hotel, as opposed to roughing it like the night before in the back of the car with a futon mattress (which is now covered in gas... but that's a whole different story all together).