day 2

We are heading towards the 505 at the moment, blaring ‘we built this city’ on the iPod (we’re all feeling very 80’s-ish after our diner at Applebee’s) from there we’ll turn off onto Midway Drive and sleeping at Neil’s Vineyard RV park. A few minutes ago I managed to upload a handful of pictures to Amanda’s flickr account from the parking lot of a Safeway, more to come very soon.

I would say that today has gone very well - we captured about 95% of the shots I had planned to shoot - and the 5% that we didn’t wasn’t anyone’s fault - for instance, I had a few ideas of things for the ferry ride to Vallejo, but I had never been inside the ferry until this afternoon, and it was nothing like I had pictured - so a lot of that stuff didn’t quite work out the same. But I’m very happy with what we got.

Despite our having woken up today at 4:30 to catch the dawn at San Gregorio State Beach, everyone seems to have made it through most of the day without appearing too exhausted. Just a few cat-naps in-between locations. Although now that it’s 10:00, I’m starting to have a hard time keeping my eyes open. All that’s left to do tonight is, if possible, start a campfire, set up the two tents we have and crawl in them. Whether or not we’ll actually sleep in the tents is up in the air - Tim might sleep on the roof of the RV for the second night in a row.

Tomorrow we should be in the Lake Tahoe area for lunch - I’m looking forward to the snow capped mountains and sudden dry-desert landscape that follows directly after. As hot as it’s going to be - I think I’m looking most forward to the desert the most... especially the Goldfield-area.