The Road to Anaheim
Jun. 30th, 2023 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goobergunchToday was supposed to be the first day of Westercon 75, and I, quite foolishly—in an attempt to save money—booked a slightly off-site hotel room at a nonrefundable rate. Well, the convention canceled due to lack of memberships, but I wasn't going to let my hotel reservation go to waste. Plus I haven't been out of the Greater Bay Area (I'm counting Santa Cruz here, sorry) since last year's Worldcon. That was nine months ago. Yeah, I've been getting a bit stir-crazy.
The drive down from Sunnyvale to Anaheim was uneventful up through the Grapevine. Frankly, I had forgotten just how dull I-5 through the Central Valley is given that it's a couple of years since I last made the drive. I stopped for gas right before heading up into the mountains, although that might have been unnecessary given how large the Baby Bronco's fuel tank is. Still, better to be safe than sorry.
Once over the Grapevine, the drive became an exercise in dodging traffic. There's no way to avoid all of it but continually grabbing "faster routes" from Google Maps was a fun exercise in alternate routes through the L.A. Basin. I ended up routing 5-210-2-5-10-710-60-(surface streets)-5. Altogether it took almost exactly seven hours of driving from Sunnyvale, with nearly three of them being after my pit stop.
I'm here through the Fourth of July. The plan is to bag some Hundred Peaks Section mountains over the next few days. I suspect it will be too warm to go after Santiago Peak, the Orange County high point, but there's certainly easier objectives to mount.
The drive down from Sunnyvale to Anaheim was uneventful up through the Grapevine. Frankly, I had forgotten just how dull I-5 through the Central Valley is given that it's a couple of years since I last made the drive. I stopped for gas right before heading up into the mountains, although that might have been unnecessary given how large the Baby Bronco's fuel tank is. Still, better to be safe than sorry.
Once over the Grapevine, the drive became an exercise in dodging traffic. There's no way to avoid all of it but continually grabbing "faster routes" from Google Maps was a fun exercise in alternate routes through the L.A. Basin. I ended up routing 5-210-2-5-10-710-60-(surface streets)-5. Altogether it took almost exactly seven hours of driving from Sunnyvale, with nearly three of them being after my pit stop.
I'm here through the Fourth of July. The plan is to bag some Hundred Peaks Section mountains over the next few days. I suspect it will be too warm to go after Santiago Peak, the Orange County high point, but there's certainly easier objectives to mount.
