The Road to MN - Day Two

Got on the road around 9:00am this morning. We adjusted our plan and rather than head straight west to the Pacific Coast Highway, we are making a diversion to Napa Valley. Our favorite vineyard V. Sattui is there and we wanted to pick up a case or their famous Gamay Rous. We spent about an 2 hours at the vineyard, shopping and enjoying lunch at lunch of hard salami, Italian bread, blue cheese, roasted veggies, roasted garlic and strawberries in there garden. After lunch we continued north on highway 29 to highway 101 north. This route took us through the Redwood Forest all the way to the coast. Our final 80 miles was along the northern California coast, ending up in Crescent City. We rolled in to our hotel around 10pm. Chris’ back has been tightening up since yesterday morning and now it’s full blown out. It was all she could do to get out of the car and into the hotel bed. It was so bad that I started looking into the option of having her fly to Minneapolis from Portland, our destination tomorrow. My thinking is that after Portland it gets a lot harder to get decent air travel options. I’d then have to fly someone out to Portland to drive the car the rest of the way. Chris and I spoke quite a bit about this and decided we’d see how she feels in the morning.