It seems as though I planned this trip ages ago, yet it popped up suddenly like I wasn’t half expecting it. With our travels to Maine and a week with Kadyn, I didn’t spend much time packing or doing any last minute preparation. Needless to say I only packed one long sleeve shirt and San Francisco is cold.
I did do a lot of planning with flights though and I found first class tickets on Delta for $5.60 and 30k miles. In fact, most of our travel is with miles and I figure I saved nearly $10k on this trip using miles and points. I also joined an online group that has brought my traveling with points to a whole new level.
Our trip on Delta went off without a hitch. We were served beverages in glasses, provided with linen napkins and had a meal on our Atlanta to San Francisco flight. I watched a movie and photographed clouds up there in the heavens.
We stayed at an Embassy Suites at the airport and picked up a car early the next day for our trip to visit Kami, Eric and our granddaughter Lily. Our drive took us over the Golden Gate Bridge.
It was quite scenic on parts of the roads.
We finally made it to Truckee and to see little Lily again. Our first and only time meeting Lily was last year when she was two weeks old.
For dinner we went to a cool looking place called Cottonwood. It’s a real busy time in the Tahoe area so we sat in the bar area because a table on the patio wouldn’t be available for at least 45 minutes. I do t think that would have worked for Lily although she did have fun playing with the salt and pepper shakers.
In the morning, Lily slept until 8am. She is an amazing little girl. Eats like a trooper and sleeps like trooper. And she already knows what she wants. Today was to be hiking day , after we all had coffee and danish we went for a hike up Eagle Nest Trail. It wasn’t a long trail but it was all uphill.
The elevation is high here, and I felt very thirsty during the hike. I was very glad we had brought waters.
The views from the top were spectacular. It was definitely worth the climb.
After our hike we headed for lunch. Bruce and I shared fish tacos and ahi tuna.
We decided to head back home to regroup and once there, left Eric and Lily home, while Bruce, Kami and I went to explore the Donner Pass.
The views were exceptional. This is such beautiful country. There were people rock climbing on the granite.
There was an interesting bridge that Kami said they use in all the car commercials.
We did a small walk to a peak that was about 7200 feet.
We drove a little more taking in the incredible scenery and stopped here and there for some photo opportunities.
In the evening we went to Downtown Truckee for their Thursday night bash on the street.
It was a beautiful evening and the skies were glorious.
I even caught a piece of the moon.
What a fun way to spend Bruce’s birthday.
Tomorrow we are off to San Francisco!
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