Nobody's fault by mine

These pics are from the first California Exit, where the gas is 3.25 and you can buy liquor and tire chains to go with your ridiculously high priced fuel. In some ways more ridiculous is the fact that Highway 99 bears Jefferson Davis's name, a little known fact demonstrated by the rock above and explained here: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/jdavis.cfm. Every time you travel highway 99 (which branches off into 99w and 99e in Oregon) you are traveling the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway.

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I rediscovered Zeppelin somewhere between Redding and Mt. Shasta, and I am so glad I did. Presence is an underrated record, especially when driving between Redding and Shasta at night. All Music Guide only gave it three out of five stars, confirming my suspicions with its review.

What's important is this record has some real awesome epics for twilight in Northern California, and accompanies my 80 mph semi-truck dodging interstate zooming nicely enough to justify repeat listens.

Aside from Zeppelin, an old Chili Peppers mixtape and The Best of the Doors (1985 collection) Disc Two served to provide sound.

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I LOVE I-5 in Northern California! Curves so slender and intoxicating, 70 mph speed limit that really means feel free to go eighty, and so little traffic on a Tuesday night...this is why I love driving. If my car wasn't an automatic, it may have even been better (almost) than sex.

My only stop was to get gas in Redding, where I met a couple clerks that offered to sell me three corn dogs two chimichangas and a burrito for two dollars. They said they had to throw all the food out later, otherwise it would have been about two dollars per item. I obliged, and ate two corn dogs and a burrito on my way down, finishing off the chimichangas for breakfast/lunch earlier today.

And now I lay on Erin's couch, typing away as I wait for my laundry to dry. Erin is the owner of the couch I stayed on last night, and she can be found at couchsurfing.org. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in animal sciences at UC Davis and educated me about the alarming infertility rates in male animals around the world, including human males; our infertility has gone down 50%.

Well, in some ways that might not be such a bad thing. What is a bad thing is the lack of environmental regulations causing chemicals to seep freely into our water in the name of lower costs; this is what Erin says is responsible for the fertility issues. God bless capitalism!

I am thinking about heading to San Francisco then down the coast for awhile, but I have not made up my mind just yet. I need to find more couches to surf on. In the mean time, please enjoy this new preview of the Hero of Time!