My travels took me over on the coast the Thursday night to fix a Sony laptop in Eureka. The drive there basically uneventful except I went a different way. I had hoped to have the time to video tape some of the fire area along that route. Of course that didn't work because the client before says "oh while your here I have this other problem". That "other" problem took and additional 2 hours.
So basically, I was running late and unable to do any taping. It was a beutiful ride though what I could see.
I left Eureka to come back home around 8pm. Eureka is about a 3.5 hour trip I have made many times. I typically charge a full-days rate when I have to go there so it is worth going...even for a 15 min fix like this time was.
Just outside Weaverville on the way back, I came around a curve and there was a deer standing on the white line on the right side of the road with his butt facing me. If I had a passenger with me the could have pat him/her on the head as I passed. If it was a lefthand curve I would have seen it sooner but a righthand curve...it was a near miss fortunately.
Buy the time I got to Weaverville the fog had set in. The speed limit was 35 but since it was foggy I was doing around 25. I made it through town and near the outskirts the fog got a little thicker all of a sudden.
About two seconds later there are 3 deer crossing the road right in front of me in single file. Fortunately, the third deer was running a little behind. There was just enough of a gap to swerve quickly between them leaving both the Jeep and the deer unharmed.
Not sure who got startled worse though, me or the deer....it was that close!