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shatto
03-09-2012, 10:51 AM
Dang! Maybe it's supposed to be work (I will lift a total of 3034 lbs in and out of the truck) but these long runs are mini-vacations to me.
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Concord,+CA+94520&daddr=dixon,+ca+to:Glen+Ellen,+CA+to:Covelo,+CA&hl=en&sll=38.22064,-121.980605&sspn=0.871748,1.783905&geocode=FdddRAIdWgS6-CkRTGglTWaFgDFZk45Fam3AbA%3BFZihSgIdwB-9-Cn5JJxlniWFgDGmjngaqmmClA%3BFa9jSQIdC26y-CklYnAFHz-EgDEsRv5yAGVgzQ%3BFSQxXwIdO2Kn-ClD4P0SwoyBgDETc3cJcdj1JQ&oq=covelo,+ca&mra=ls&t=h&z=8

So, I'll begin at A then go to B then C and D.
LOL.

At Dixon, I'll pick up 56 boxes of dialysite weighing 1517 lbs., drop 22 in the town of Glen Ellen then carry-on past Willits and into the Mendocino National Forest.
This makes me part of America's failing health system. Riiight. And where else can you do dialysis in the comfort of your own home, rather than having to get to a clinic and spend most of the day?
Don't know where else. But we do have it and it is not government provided.

Pictures to follow. :peace:

Dang! Maybe it's supposed to be work (I will lift a total of 3034 lbs in and out of the truck) but these long runs are mini-vacations to me.
Concord, CA 94520 to Covelo, CA - Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Concord,+CA+94520&daddr=dixon,+ca+to:Glen+Ellen,+CA+to:Covelo,+CA&hl=en&sll=38.22064,-121.980605&sspn=0.871748,1.783905&geocode=FdddRAIdWgS6-CkRTGglTWaFgDFZk45Fam3AbA%3BFZihSgIdwB-9-Cn5JJxlniWFgDGmjngaqmmClA%3BFa9jSQIdC26y-CklYnAFHz-EgDEsRv5yAGVgzQ%3BFSQxXwIdO2Kn-ClD4P0SwoyBgDETc3cJcdj1JQ&oq=covelo,+ca&mra=ls&t=h&z=8)

So, I'll begin at A then go to B then C and D.
LOL.

At Dixon, I'll pick up 56 boxes of dialysite weighing 1517 lbs., drop 22 in the town of Glen Ellen then carry-on past Willits and into the Mendocino National Forest.
This makes me part of America's failing health system. Riiight. And where else can you do dialysis in the comfort of your own home, rather than having to get to a clinic and spend most of the day?
Don't know where else. But we do have it and it is not government provided.

Pictures Below:

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Eastbound on 680 looking toward Cordelia, Suisun and Fairfield. To my left, over the hills, is Vallejo.

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Between Benicia and Fairfield, Vallejo is to the north on the other side of these hills.

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Dixon. Where I fetch dialysate, one of the fluids used in at home dialysis.
Between Vaccaville and Sacramento, farmland is changing from raising crops to raising people.

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Where I fetch dialysite in Dixon.

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If they open it I'll get my cargo......

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Someday, I must clean Clyde. Maybe I took this at the pick-up so I could calculate how many miles of the total was with cargo.

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Cordelia, driving towards Vallejo. I'll pass and go to Sonoma.
The stories about California being part of Mexico are propaganda. 23 years was all of Mexican influence.

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On the way to Napa from Fairfield on Hwy 12

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Vineyard? Check. Winery? Check. Must be in wine country.

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Jack London. More than a dead writer.
https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+london&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


So-Long for now. :seeya:

jamieooh
03-09-2012, 11:27 AM
Shatto,
Wish I could go on that drive.

Benda
03-09-2012, 10:48 PM
Looks like fun take it easy

shatto
03-25-2012, 06:33 PM
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Jack London. More than a dead writer.
https://www.google.com/search?q=jack+london&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

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First delivery was to a man who quit his job, went into landscaping for a few decades, then one day gave it to an employee and moved to Siskiyou County so he could look at Mount Shasta.

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Now he lives in Glen Ellen, near Sonoma.

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Northbound to Santa Rosa in the Valley of the Moon, Kenwood is where we lived before moving to Ethiopia.

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He is........'cleaning' ?

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Northbound on 101 from Santa Rosa.
Healdsburg is where my great grandfather had a 'livery' and my grandmother was a teen before she saw her first flush toilet. Before there was a Golden Gate Bridge.

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Coppola Winery
https://www.google.com/search?q=francis+ford+coppola+winery&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Yep. The movie director. It is a gorgeous place and, they display a real Tucker from the movie Tucker: the Man and His Dream

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Ukiah, in the distance. Pretty much the end of the broad valleys and into mountains

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If one is good....5 is just the ticket!

shatto
03-25-2012, 06:35 PM
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128 at 101
If you are googling the trip.

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One of the nations largest crops comes from Mendocino county. Black market, if you catch my drift.
"Experience" indeed.

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My biker friends haunt personality-laden places like this.

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Neat old places like this are part of why trips like this are like a mini-vacation for me.

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Herefords. Mmmmmm...Yummy!

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Go ahead. Look up Jack London.

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Not even out of California and we could pass through a bunch of Central American countries going the same distance.

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Two fire trucks....Cops...crawling traffic....must be serious.

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Safeway truck broke down. Not much going on in the small town of Willits, so we might as well all show up!

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Next time you are at 'the gateway to the Redwoods' remember the 'once in a lifetime'
because you'll only want to do it once....Skunk Train.

shatto
03-25-2012, 06:36 PM
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The inside joke...In The Bay Area far to the south in Concord, is Diggers Hamburgers.

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Northern California, northbound on Hwy 101.

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Round Valley. Covelo. Finally.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-U0ljr7WTFBE/T2P7xhemFnI/AAAAAAAAIzU/4KqCqPOYWOQ/s800/DSC04528.JPG

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28 miles. Just a few minutes.
Hah! Not at curvy road speeds of 45 MPH.

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Hmmmm. Not as straight. Slower than the freeway. Maybe that's why they made freeways.

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Eel River. Imagine riding the rapids during flood.

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Round Valley

shatto
03-25-2012, 06:37 PM
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Round Valley. Pretty.

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That tractor was made long before everything was made of plastic.

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Northern California has a number of valleys hidden behind mountains. Here, they raise cattle. Some grow hay.

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Almost there. Deliver. Head back.

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You know, this looks like a nice place to live.

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Yep. A very nice looking place.

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Nope. Your eyes don't lie.

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The delivery at Covelo.

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247 miles carrying 968 lbs.

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Just for texture.

shatto
03-25-2012, 06:38 PM
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Can't make this up. I wonder too.

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So, with the sun low in the sky, we head home.

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Late-day green textures.

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434 miles. Not a bad days drive.

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About 12 hours day.

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Actually, 19.3 miles per gallon. 22.519 gallons $93.66.

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So-Long for now. :seeya: