Took the Beast on a drive with Mrs CW

First, lunch at the Old Mill Eatery and Smokehouse in Shasta Lake, just up the road from Redding.

It's a family style place with super friendly waitresses that are happy to banter back and forth with you.  In addition to lunch, we got a couple of pounds of pulled pork and brisket to eat later.  Good stuff.

Then, we rolled out of town and east up 299, into the pines, and then south-west on Oak Run Road, which is a rural road that winds its way through hilly oak/bull pine country.  The grass is nicely green this time of year.  The creeks have water.  A nice scenic, windy road to test out the Challenger.

So, with the wide tires, it holds the corners well, even on a bumpy, country road like this one.

At one point we were whipping through the corners, when Mrs. CW suddenly started shouting, "twenty, twenty, twenty!!" from the passenger seat, in a robotic, computer style warning tone.  It seems she did not approve of the high speed which the orange wonder car was approaching the next 20mph corner. 

 Now it's our inside joke.   Shouting "twenty, twenty, twenty," will mean, "slow yourself down right now or we die an awful, fiery death."

It must be fixing to rain here in Redding because they were doing a rather large controlled burn north of 299.   The country is brushy, so burning some of that out before it gets hot would certainly be a good thing.

Oak Run was a fun road for practicing turns and corners.  Mrs. CW had a pretty good time.  She told me again never to buy another sports car, but that this one was going to bring a lot of smiles.  I think I'm off probation.