Road trip - again!

Yes, we are on the road again and I have been guilt tripped into blogging.  Well, it was originally my idea but that was because I wanted to keep a journal of our adventures and that was so easy when we had adventures.   Today's road trip began with an auspicious call from Vicki at work asking if I wanted the day off.  Hello.  Of course, I want the day off.  Checking in with Dennis about leaving early as we had spent the entire morning packing, organizing and cleaning he said "may as well".  We were on the road at 3pm and forty minutes later arrived at the hospital where I needed to stop before leaving town.  It wasn't as bad as I feared - the traffic, that is.  A sunny Friday afternoon is not the best time to try to get out of town.  Please note the first sun in weeks and we are leaving town!  Figures.  Let's remember the reason - upcoming 20 year anniversary of marital bliss and where better to spend it than the delights of Las Vegas?  The chosen route is through Bend, Burns, Winnemucca, Tonopah and eventually Las Vegas.  So far we've made it to Redmond, OR.   Flashy evening sun piercing the dark rain clouds off to the west was the best photo-op so far.  Audiobook is Flannery O'Connor short stories - a bit gruesome some of them but that's Flannery.  Plenty of snow at Government Camp but none of it on the roads.  Life is good.  Later, dw
   As dw said traffic out of town wasn't bad, and had totally thinned out by the time we hit Sandy.  We had looked at road cams before we left and most of the passes looked pretty bad but 26 was just wet from snow melt.  The warm afternoon did the trick.  E. Oregon is spring greenish, there's still low snow on the hills (roadside snow started at 1500') the air got chilly this evening and a few drops of rain fell.  All in all, no surprises for early April.  DA