Driving Back from SF Airport

Last Sunday I wrote this:Driving to San Francisco In Heavy Rain

when I  was driving to the airport to go to Portland. Today I did the opposite and though it was much easier there was another cell drenching the area but it wasn't quite as dangerous this time so I was relieved. I don't like driving in heavy traffic since I grew up in Los Angeles Area getting stuck in traffic without an air conditioner in the 1950s and 1960s when it was often 110 degrees stuck in traffic with choking smog. I haven't lived in the Los Angeles area now since 1969 except for a few months in 1977 when I worked in a Computer department of a Hospital for a few months. But I still don't like driving in traffic and now rather than drive in it I often will stop at a restaurant, or go to a movie (anything to avoid bumper to bumper traffic) now that I am mostly retired and can afford to drive during non-traffic times most days.

So, when the rains and traffic let up we traded drivers and I drove through the Coastal Fog to our destination through the drizzle. Though I enjoyed everyone getting healed in Portland and seeing my daughter and her boyfriend and driving with them up to Timberline Lodge in the snow at 5900 feet on Mt. Hood, It's still good to be home on the Northern California coast with the thick fog and drizzle outside on all the trees. I was amazed how much the grass is growing everywhere with all the rain and flooding throughout northern California just since Thanksgiving week or so.