Update—
Slowed down a bit and just chilled when hanging out with the fam. Did go to Napa for a half day, skipped SF/Point Reyes. Did the California Train Museum (always stop there, it is pretty solid), walked to the capitol building, downtown Sacramento is pretty decent now with the stadium and new development.
Yesterday, Went to Donner Lake instead of Tahoe because there was a fire at Tahoe or something and it was closer to Truckee where we were staying. I was waiting for pizza drinking a beer and I thought i was getting drunk because I felt a little unsteady all of a sudden and like the room was spinning. Turns out that was my first earthquake. Didn’t know what it was until a few minutes later when someone came in for their shift and asked if anyone felt the earthquake and I was the only that had.
Absolutely love Tahoe/Truckee area and the lake was cold but had a real nice view of the mountains and was not overly busy. My wife and I are both definitely mountain lake in the summer people not ocean/beach. It was also unseasonably hot so that helped a bit with making it comfortable too.
On our way back now we left at 2:30 am and are now halfway across Nevada, we are just going to power through and see how far we get, hoping for Denver or MHK. My first driving shift is over and now time for a nap.
Overall the trip was great! better than I thought it would be and much better than some of the apocalyptic predictions in this thread.