Rube Tourist here..

We made it Grande Island Nebraska, and have reservations for Cheyenne WY's AB campground in a full hook up site for Sunday and Monday to take in the Frontier Days. I know we won't see everything, but hopefully we can sit in the bleachers and watch a rodeo, which is much more interesting to us than listening to some dude yodeling.
We did pass quite a few wineries, on I-70 before getting on I-80, but had to keep the doggies Rollin' Ee-Haww!
Have a nephew in San Francisco who's in charge of the cities IT network, and hope to stay at the Novato Campground in Marin. That's not too far from where he and his lovely wife and daughter live.
Drove farther than I like yesterday (450 miles), so that today we have only 352 to Cheyenne, WY.
The weather here in Nebraska is cool and dry this morning, although I'm sure it will warm up. So encouraging to know that it's cool on the coast of Oregon! A Thanks for that nugget! We were in Northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan including Copper Harbor for 6 Weeks last summer and didn't need the AC once!
We've mostly stayed east of the big muddy for the past four years and I'd kind of forgot how you really have to put in some long days if you want to get across this grand country of ours. I'd like to go short distances each day, but we want to save some days for the destinations we have planned to visit.
Anyway, thanks for all the input regarding the left coast including San Jose and San Francisco and WA and OR!
Guess we'll stay on 80 and go to California first before trekking north to OR and WA. We've been to most of the major western National Parks, so we can stop in Glacier, Yellowstone, and maybe Rocky Mountainq on the way home. Blog hasn't been updated since before Nashville, but I should have time to put something on it in Cheyenne.
Cheers to you all! And thanks!
Ron and Joyce about to head out for Frontier Days in Cheyenne!