Well our day was complete at 7:30 pm and we started to head through town. onto the Bay Bridge and back to Benicia. Traffic wasnt too bad and we were travelling at 65 mph with most of the traffic about the same. Even though the Car Pool times were over, we sat in there most of the time.

We were heading East on the I-80 and I spotted a car coming up fast about 600 metres back so I pulled over right into the next lane.

It must have been about a minute later when we were heading around a bend at Tara Hills that I heard the screech of tires and sounds of car impacting concrete. Next minute out of my window I am looking at a car mounting the concrete barrier on the left then coming off of it then aiming straight into the side of us. I can only guess that he has come into the bend with too much speed, ran wide into all the gravel and other stuff on the edge and lost it.

A quick look to the right and check to see if that lane is clear and most of the cars there had slowed off when they saw what was going on.

It was a matter then of either slowing down or speeding up to try and miss this car which was out of control and heading back and forward between the two lanes and playing pinball with the concrete barrier.

I eventually picked a gap and floored it getting out of the way and continuing. This was all in the space of about 20 seconds.

About a 1km up the freeway was a cop at another incident and the car behind me stopped to let him know what had happened.

Bradley was watching all of this out of his window and the other two were looking back and forward to see where this car was going to end up. Everyone had heartbeats you could hear but we were all OK.

Had to grab a few caches in Benicia to calm the nerves. They were:

• GC1D6YP – Stubby View
• GC98C2 – Working Capitol
• GCYZWT – Capitol Cache

Tommorrow we leave San Francisco behind and head down the coast towards Los Angeles.