Highway 395 was open, as was highway 50, so that's the route I ended up using to get across. I hit some rain, and multiple times I ended up riding in snow for a little while. Thankfully the temps were just warm enough to keep the roads wet and not icy, though it was barely above freezing in the higher elevations. It felt like I was never going to be able to warm up a few times during the day, and stopping for lunch didn't seem to help much in that regard.
Once I got over Echo Summit and started descending the temperatures gradually increased as well, and eventually the sun started making appearances. By the time I left Placerville it was sunny and warm, something I was so thankful for by that point. Like I always seem to do, I made my way through the Sacramento area right in the heat of rush hour. It again made me wonder why people choose to live in cities like that, I just couldn't handle that at all. Traffic was barely moving once I got close to I-5 on I-80, but once I got a little way down I-5 it was flowing smoothly. I got off the interstate and onto highway 20 headed west.
There was a little rain shower on highway 20, but it was light and the temperature was warm so it actually was refreshing. The air smells so good after a rain, especially when it's warm. I kept pushing onwards, though by now I was getting quite tired after a long day on the road. I finally called it a day and got a room in Ukiah, about an hour or so from the Pacific Coast now. The next couple days should be pretty easy as I'll relax a litle as I make my way north along the coast.
I'll have seen most of what I wanted to on this year's trip once I get up the coast, so at this point it's likely that I'll be home somewhere around the end of next week, unless something changes in the next few days. Right now I'm very tired so it's time to call it a night. Not a ton of pictures today as it was mostly a travel day.
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