Day 10-11 San Fran to Redding via Tahoe

Well, it has been an eventful 2 days. We left SF with the intention of going to Napa for the tasting of wine. Little did we know but even though there are 400 wineries you cannot just rock up...you must book for a tasting! Also there is a massive cover charge. The amount of cars in most of the car parks put us off even bluffing our way in. so we headed to Sacramento.
Sacramento is the capital bu i is very small. We went to "Old Sacramento" which was like a little piece of Ye Olde West, we could imagine horse and carriage going up the street, come to think of it there were horse and carriages going up the street.
Then we drove to Lake Tahoe, stayed a mil from the Nevada border. Had dinner at a Brewery and tested their produce. Woke u in the morning to a very, very light dusting of snow and drove to Carson City. Drove through some slightly heavier snow. Carson city is the capital of Nevada, again very small for a capital. Then to Reno...not impressive...spread out and tacky.
A pleasant drive to a town called Truckee...it then turned into a blizzard and after we had lunch we found the road we intended driving was needed chains so we were forced to head back to Reno to head for a town called Susanville. The road was fine till Susanville, hen the blizzard started again.

This creates a dilemma: do you stop and get snowed in or push through??? troopers that we are: we pushed through. hank goodness for MR PLOW!!!

We made it to Redding and are safely ensconced for the night!
Now it is wine time!!