Crazy, Exciting Week 5-27

Yesterday Sharon popped over from her store around 9:15 with a coffee…how nice. She liked our space and said it didn’t smell…that’s nice to know…seriously, I don’t want my home to smell like an old, musty trailer, so it is nice that someone with a neutral nose gave us a report….that is what friends are for!

It rained off and on in the morning, but not bad and I was able to pull in the slides between rain storms. We left Chester at 9:50. We traveled 266 miles and arrived at Kit Fox RV in Patterson along I-5 at 3:19.

We went down 89 to 70 to 99 to 5. The 70 canyon was beautiful..many wild flowers and waterfalls, had a nice uneventful drive. We were entertained by the scanner south of Stockton…listening to a high speed chase…a motorcycle running from CHP doing up to 120 mph. They eventually got HER in some dead end River park.

Our RV park site is large and level and within walking distance of all foods and Starbucks, but the TV has a glitch so I don’t think we’ll walk anywhere. Larry is digging into the TV. Something has come loose on the picture tube and considering all the miles it has vibrated down the road it has done really well. We have a lamp we travel with that the light bulb comes out of every so often.

Well the official diagnosis for the TV was F’d up and is going to the electronic recycling center. Now we have to decide if we want to suspend our satellite TV service again…we watch so little TV during the summer and not buy a new TV yet. We had no internet for a few hours…the parks wifi went down…frustrating, but at least it came back up before we turned in and we could finish what we had started.

For today I set the alarm for 6 and was sleeping soundly when it went off, but jumped up and kept on going. We pulled out of the Kit Fox RV park in Patterson at 6:51. We hit some rain off and on all the way down. There was high fog up by Pyramid Lake and the lake level was full. I-5 through LA was slow going all the way through…maybe twice did we actually get up any speed. The link to 91 was like being on a roller coaster approach…we climbed way high above the other ramps and highways and it was bumpy and then back around to get onto 91, creepy.

We got to the Canyon RV park at 1:54 and had traveled 341 miles today. The RV park is treed, pretty and our site backs up to the Santa Ana river…but the freeway is noisy and Larry can’t find a satellite signal…frustrating for him…too many trees. He finally got it..had to move the dish way out, at least our site is really big and we have the space for that.

So yesterday the TV broke and today while washing off our piggy dirt covered trailer Larry discovered that our lid on the bathroom vent has become brittle…broken! Nothing a Walmart bag and duct tape couldn’t temporarily fix. Another shopping project for tomorrow…we are glad we decided to get here a day earlier than we had originally planned.