It was moving day today so we broke camp in Morgan Hill and headed north. We started north on 101 until we got to I-880 which runs through part of Silicon Valley and Oakland. Once we passed the east end of the Bay Bridge, the highway designation becomes I-80 and we continued northbound until we crossed the Carquinez Strait at Vallejo. Shortly after that we exited and proceeded northwest on CA-29 through Napa, St. Helena and finally to Calistoga. We traveled mostly at midday and the traffic was pretty good except for what seems to be an extraordinarily high number of idiots on the road. These folks have little regard for lane discipline, happily passing traffic on the right, using the slow lane. Merging with traffic when they are entering the freeway is a lost art for these folks who enter the high speed lanes substantially below the speed of traffic and only accelerate after they finally realize people are trying to pass them by bailing into all the adjacent lanes. At that point, they accelerate, sometimes to almost terrifying speeds, before falling in behind some motorist blocking the right lane while driving 25 mph less than all the other cars. They may be a bit short on attention span. We only had to slam on the brakes a few times to make room for these important folks.
Once we made it to CA-29, things became less hectic. 29 initially has two lanes each way and ample signals but as progress is made northward, the road gets skinnier and the signals disappear except where some are installed in St. Helena and Calistoga. It is a very nice drive through the whine country even when towing a trailer. The wineries and houses are beautiful. At Lincoln Avenue in Calistoga, we turned off and found our way to the Calistoga RV Park and Napa County Fairgrounds. This park mostly resembles a large RV parking lot although there are lots of naked trees. They may throw ample shade in the spring, summer and fall but they look like the skeletons of deformed people in the winter. Recent rain has not been kind to this place; there is an abundance of mud. They do, however, have full hookups, only cost $25 per night and the park boasts of having wi-fi.
We set up all our utility connections, lit off the satellite antenna and climbed into the Barbarian Invader for a nap. Neither of us fell asleep but we did get some drinking in and had wraps for lunch.