Quickie Anniversary Weekend Trip

This weekend is our anniversary. Hawk and I have been together for 27 years, officially married for 15 of them. We're celebrating with a quick weekend trip. Tonight we'll drive up to Truckee, California.

"WTF is Truckee?" you might ask. "Do you drive there in your caree on the roadee?" Well, the town's name is derived from that of a  native Paiute chief and spelled phonetically in frontier English. It has nothing to do with trucks. But more to the point, Truckee is a town just over the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It's an excellent jumping-off point to Lake Tahoe to the south and the Gold Lakes Basin to the north. We'll spend the weekend hiking out there.

This trip also has a special relevance to the occasion. We were hiking in the Gold Lakes Basin when we decided to get married, and we were staying in Truckee that weekend. This weekend we'll even stay at the same hotel!

Over the Mountain and Through the Woods

Truckee, Calif - Friday, 24 Sep 2021, 11pm

Today we packed our bags after work for a weekend trip to the Sierra Nevada to celebrate our anniversary. We're staying 2 nights in Truckee, at a Hampton Inn where we stayed 15 years ago when we got engaged.

The drive up here from Silicon Valley was surprisingly not terrible. It's a trek of 215 miles, and usually on a Friday evening we hit "Friday escape" traffic in various places around the Bay Area and on the road to Sacramento. But tonight the delays were minor. Often a trip this distance means getting in after midnight. We arrived at the hotel tonight at 10:30pm! It helped that we left home at 6:50pm, having eaten dinner already, then hammered straight through without stops.

Now I'll see if I can wind down and get to sleep around midnight instead of 1:30am-ish as often happens with these Friday night trips, the better to get up early tomorrow and start a day of hiking.