We left home about eleven and traveled on freeways through the Coast Range and across the Central Valley on freeways. Then it was up the gradual sloping alluvial plain to the Sierra foothills on California 120. Tioga Pass, through Yosemite, is closed for the season, so we went over California 108, Sonora Pass, which was closed yesterday because of a storm – the same storm that caused PG&E to shut power off in the North Bay – but was reopened the next day (seemingly for us because we saw no other cars). We drove through the remains of the storm in flat light that faded as we drove by the Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center – greatly enlarged from the last time we drove by – joined 395, headed south past the Mono County Courthouse – built in 1880 – then it was east in the dark.