08/30/17 - This morning, I left the truck stop around 8 45 am.  I still had almost a half tank of gas so decided to drive for a while before filling up which turned out to be a mistake since the gas was a lot higher.  Oh, well, what can one do?  I then drove a while again and stopped and had lunch at a rest stop.  Since I still had some small passes to go over some traveling was very slow but the motor did not over heat.  When I was almost out of the mountain area the outside temperature rose from 88 degrees to 104 degrees!!  I just drove about 50 to 55 miles an hour and the motor did fine.  It took me 8 hours to drive my 300 miles.  I must state tho that I did waste about 45 minutes for lunch because I was just tired from driving.  The sun has gone down so now it is starting to cool off.  When I got to the Walmart in Willows, CA it was 101 degrees.  When I started out this morning, I drove through a lot of smoke from the northern California wild fires.  At one time, we all drove with our lights on because you could not see very far in front of you.  I took a picture from the rest stop and you can not even see the outline of the mountains in the background.  I will attach a picture but the picture really does not do justice to how bad the smoke really was.