Three states and still moving...

We left Seattle on Thursday, and drove down to Portland to visit Justin's friend Sarah and his grandmother. We walked around the city, went to Powell's, the largest independent bookstore in the US, and ended up at grandma's for a good home cooked meal. Portland is a booming city, with lots of construction sites and a very "alternative" population. :)
After a night in Portland, we drove down the coast, through the small town of Weed, California, and then head south east to just outside of Sacramento to the suburb of Roseville to visit Justin's dad and his family. We spent the weekend doing family things, such as going to Shari's cross country meet, touring the old town of Folssom, CA, and having pork chops for dinner.
On Sunday, we took a roller coaster ride down highway 128, through Winters, St. Helena, and finally down to Healdsburg. Upon arrival, Emmett cooked up a huge rack of ribs and we all had dinner. Later that night Emmett's deer friends showed up. There is a deer, with her little fawn, that Emmett is trying to train to eat figs out of his hand. They're getting pretty close. We spent the next two days relaxing at the beach and running errands. We made mom's Indian dishes, and went to Emmett's winery. Fitch Mountain (where they live) is a zoo. Other than the deer, there were numerous rodents, a raccoon who tried to steal food off a hot grill, and something that stalked me late at night when I went out to get something fro the car.
Currently, we are in Nevada, being feed by Justin's family who are excellent cooks. Last night we arrived to a dinner of baby back ribs, bacon wrapped potatoes (that were roughly, about the size of my head), and garlic bread. Tonight was bbq turkey. Tomorrow we are going to take it easy, go to Tahoe, and on Saturday there will be huge stakes, roasted on a oak wood grill. Nevada, it's delicious.

Here are two new sets of photos from Portland and California.