Occasionally Interesting, often not

This weekend, went up to Tahoe to ski for a day, and the following day, drove back down 80 to Auburn and then down 49 to Angels Camp to go to Moaning Caverns. The drive down 49 was nice. We stopped for a short hike at an abandoned railroad bridge across the North Fork of the American. There are railings on the bridge, but with big enough spaces so it's easy to imagine falling through! Stopped off in historic downtown Jackson to see a dying business district. Most interesting though, to the point of this blog entry title, we were driving back on 4 towards the Central Valley, and got caught behind a long caravan of cars led by a slow driver. After a while, I was pretty tired of the following, so I suddenly decided to turn off at a random turning onto a rural road. It turned out to be a very scenic detour on a little travelled road that wound it's way through farmland and forest before eventually rejoining a more main road. Took a lot longer, no doubt, but a much more relaxing dri...