Northern California and Diamond Lake & Crater Lake, OR

Day 4: Monday, June 8, 2015

We slept in pretty late before packing up and hitting the road. We had a long day ahead of us. The valley just north of San Francisco was a scorching 109 degrees that day. We stopped for gas in the middle of nowhere and checked the oil level on the car because something was smelling weird and my cruise control was acting a little possessed. Having never checked oil on a car before, we just pulled out the first dipstick we found and there was some sort of fluid on it, so we assumed it was all good… several days later we realized that was not the oil dipstick but rather the radiator fluid (we’ll get to that later). Who’re the real dipsticks here??? Hahaha.