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My bus parked in Mt Shasta City covered in snow. I made it!

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• 28 Days Four weeks from now I will be at a place called the Rampaging Spot. It'll be dark, cold, perhaps damp, and I'll be surrounded by a bunch of other VW bus owners. At 4.30am the next morning, February 1st, we'll run to our buses and start the most insane marathon...
• 24 Days So it's the end of the weekend of big storms in Nor*Cal and let's just say it was a bit of a learning experience as I prepare for the Shasta Trip. My duct tape window seal solution kept the rain out for much of the day, but ultimately let some...
• 22 Days Been battling allergies this week and have spent too much of the day half-asleep or mostly-asleep due to Benadryl, but made myself get up and get out there to test fit the snow chains I bought. I am happy to say that it was much easier than I expected. Mind...
• 21 Days Another rainy day around here. But I have the day off and started my Master Packing List for the trip. It's about a page so far and I suspect it will grow as the days tick away. Currently I have a problem with water getting in my front doors past...
• 16 Days Not much physical progress since my last entry. Plenty of psychological progress, though. Four straight nights where I've dreamt of the trip! That's what participants call the "Shasta Shakes"! I've done some small stuff. Adding Rain-X and the like so I can see where the heck I am going! And...
• 14 Days Two weeks! By then, at this hour, I should be on the road with Nid and Graham. We'll probably be approaching the Benicia Bridge (assuming we leave right at noon). But we're not there yet. Today was a work day (on the bus, not at the bookstore) and I am...
• 8 Days Well, I am down with the stomach flu. Very unpleasant. Haven't been able to get much of anything done on the bus at all. It's frustrating, but I'd rather have this hit me now than on the trip. But it's been really cold here and rainy. And that means there's...
• 6 Days I am craving Skittles. Not that it has anything to do with the camper, but I am finally feeling quite a bit better from the stomach flu. Now, just to keep it that way! I actually missed my "7Days" post because I was at Amber's place most all of yesterday...
• 2 Days Holy. Crap. Two days. And I get to balance prep for the trip, work, and now classes at the local junior college! Lordy, I am running around at an impressive clip! But today with the gap between school and work, I am taking the opportunity to pack the food and...
• 1 Day Well, this is it! The last entry before the trip (oh, there'll be plenty afterward!). I really wish I didn't have school today...I could use the time to finish all the packing and be 100% ready to go tonight. But c'est la vie. The mystery clunk remains just that. I...
• The Day After I'm back. Well, actually we got back yesterday around 6pm, but nevertheless, I am back. The bus is back. No one died, no one was seriously injured. And it was an insane trip. I will pepper the place with stories in the coming weeks and as they come back to...
• Shasta Trip, Day 2 So the 5am LeMans style departure went pretty well. We definitely were not the last ones out the gate, but within a few miles that didn't mean a thing as we had to stop to chain up and then crawl forward and stop again because within the span of maybe...
• Covelo to Kettenpom I have an interesting time looking back at this leg of the journey. Already my mind is starting to gloss over the reality of just how damaged and frazzled our spirits were. And it would be an injustice not to address that and just say that we powered on, determined...
• The Home Stretch Well, we were now teamed up with Team Surf City and despite the fact they were running a much bigger motor and were pretty much ready for anything, the said they'd stick with us. The plan was to get onto Ruth-Zenia Road heading north. It eventually became Van Duzen Road...
• Shasta Saturday Saturday Feb 2nd: 1am: Having arrived in Shasta and unpacked the bus and basically figured out where we were going to sleep because the folks in charge of all that were still a few hours away, I moved the bus into the local public parking lot (because I fully expected...
• Sunday's Drive Home And as soon as we were there, it was time to leave. :( I awoke early (again) on Sunday morning and instantly my mind focused on road conditions and whether or not we could make it out of town by 9am. I wanted to get back and at least have...