Charlie 🦮 and me back On The Road! Day 1

For a while I wasn’t even sure this trip was going to happen. My doctor told me I’d probably feel better if I waited until after my treatment August 5th. I considered it but I can’t sit around waiting for appointments I need to do things when and while I can. Then to complicate things even more I wasn’t sure about getting out of the valley because of the forest fires all over. I didn’t want to go all the way down I5 to Mt. Shasta because of the fires in that area. 

Originally I was going to take 58 to 97 and go southeast but they closed the highway to recover a semi that had gone over the side. My next choice was 138 but that was completely shut down for a forest fire so I5 to Shasta it was. Then pick up 89 southeast across Northern California. 
These are pictures as I was approaching Shasta. 





After heading east on my way to stopping in Reno for it was one reminder after another about wildfires. 







Then I had to do some serious self talk as I was driving closer and closer to snake from a fire that I wasn’t sure where it was located. I was driving East and knew by the way the smoke was blowing that it was south of me I just didn’t know how far. Can you say triggering PTSD? I eventually had to drive right into and through the smoke. 









And this is what it looked like from the other side. 



And from my motel in Reno. 





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