We've Arrived!

Mom and I arrived in Redding at 12:30 yesterday! We saw lots of great sights as we drove out and at other times it was quite boring. :) On Saturday we drove to Kansas City to visit the International House of Prayer. I had never been there and it's about nine hours from Cincinnati so we made it our first stop. It was very, very cool. Because they do 24/7 prayer and worship, you can really feel the presence of God as soon as you walk in.

Sunday was our longest driving day because we were trying to make it as close to Salt Lake City as we could. We drove about 15 hours. We didn't quite make it to Salt Lake City, but we were close enough. We passed through Iowa, Nebraska, and Wyoming in one day.

On Monday we continued our trek through the last little bit of Wyoming into Utah, Nevada and finally California. Utah had these really cool Salt Flats. They looked like large lakes of snow. People were playing on them though, it was pretty wild. Nevada was quite boring. I-80 West through there was nothing but brown desert that went on for miles. Gas stations were few and far between as well. If you owned a Hummer I don't think you would make it between exits. By the time we fell to half a tank we had to start looking for the next gas station.

We arrived at Lake Tahoe around 5pm and quickly went down to the lake. INCREDIBLE! It felt more like a beach because the lake had waves and sand, but it was so much better because there were mountains all around us. :) I would love to see it in the winter time, so hopefully that will happen. :)

I'm sure there will be more adventures to come, but I'm just thankful to be out of the car.