...was another day of driving. Sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Periodically, I'll check my phone to see what the local temperature is. The hottest temp when I checked was 103°. Again, we're thankful for the air conditioned truck (and trailer when we have hookups). As I write this it's 8:30pm and 95°. Today's big adventure was getting to and driving nearly all the way around Lake Tahoe. We seem to be taking a lot of wrong turns and having to either turn around or plan a new route. Today we chose to reroute. We accidentally headed east out of Truckee toward Reno. Oh well, this is an adventure, right? Highway 431 toward the lake was a steep, continuous climb...6,000 feet, 7,000 feet, 8,000 feet. A short time after the 8,000 foot mark there was a short-lived
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