RV Parks
So long, California, you’ve been gnarly
Today, with any luck, we will leave California. We might be back (though Jett swears otherwise), but it won’t be for a year or more, I suspect. To get out we need to travel through record heat along a road with no travel services for 100 miles and probably without cell phone service most of … Continue reading
Easy Come, Ez-Go
One of the tasks on our list of Things to Do Before We Head East is selling our Ez-Go golf cart. To do so, we posted “for sale” signs in all of the Rancho California laundry rooms, asking $1,600, which is what we paid. I figured that there would be limited, if any, interest and … Continue reading
Jojoba Hills SKP RV Resort
Just down the road from where we are staying is the Jojoba Hills SKP RV Resort, one of the “co-op” RV parks associated with the Escapees RV Club. Staying there was not an option for us as non-owners are limited to 28 days per year, which ran a little short of the 4 months we … Continue reading
Life on the links
For the first time in my life I am living on a golf course. We are renting a site here at Rancho California RV Resort that is close to the #3 tee. A little *too* close, perhaps. Looking at the site plan, we thought we would be safe from errant shots, but we didn’t take … Continue reading
The trek-ula to Temecula
We left San Jose last Saturday, heading south in search of warmer temperatures. It was a 2-day trek with two wildly different segments. The first day was a bucolic trip down the central valley, a mostly-flat and fairly boring trip. There were a lot of orchards and vegetable fields lining I-5. The only hilly and … Continue reading
A dog’s life
We leave tomorrow to head down to Temecula. We are looking forward to the drive as sitting still for two months seemed unnatural after three straight months of travel. But it will be just two days of travel, then 3 to 4 more months of staying put. Although they haven’t said so, we believe the … Continue reading
Shorts on New Years Day
It was actually chilly on New Years Day by local standards. It may have hit 60 degrees for about 15 minutes before dropping again. But it had finally stopped raining (the official count of non-rainy days in December: 5) and for a (not so) young man from Massachusetts, that was enough to declare the day … Continue reading
Living small
We are now settling into Patience for full-time, everyday living (as opposed to traveling across the country living). It is mostly ok, but is very different than living in a four-bedroom house. Some things we miss: The yard. Strange though it may seem, the thing I miss most is the yard. Not so much for … Continue reading
GTW Hop 37: Gilroy, CA, to San Jose, CA
19 miles via US 101 and local streets. Cumulative distance: 6,184 miles. This last hop of the GTW was less than 20 miles and was made simply to move Patience to her winter resting place: the Coyote Valley RV Resort which sits on the border between San Jose and Morgan Hill. I will describe the … Continue reading
GTW Hop 35: Morgan Hill, CA, to San Jose, CA
28 miles via US 101 and local streets. Cumulative distance: 6,134 miles. The declaration of the “penultimate” hop turned out to be premature. The park where we spent Sunday and Monday nights – the Uvas Pines RV Park – was unpleasant enough that we decided to return to a different RV park after getting the … Continue reading