Day Five

Perris, California
Palm View RV Park

After our day of LA traffic we made our way to Perris and thanks to the GPS, we found Palm View RV Park. Not a beautiful park but it's where we'll call home for two days. Driving in, and only a couple miles out, we started to smoke really bad out the back end. We stopped, waited for it to cool and moved on down the road. We leaked transmission fluid all the way to our resting place.

We settled in for the night, hooked up the satelite dish and enjoyed our evening here. Everyone seemed a little red neck but everyone is very nice. After a night of hearing a rooster and coyotes, we were up around 6:30. Someone broke a water spigot last night so we didn't have any water but our own and it was back on this morning.

After breakfast, we went for a ride into Perris to WalMart for a few things we needed. Found almost everything. Found a grocery store. They sell liquor in the grocery stores here so we bought some gin for martinis and some tequilla for some margaritas. Very very Spanish grocery store with lots of spanish food products.



Back at camp, he refilled the transmission fluid and things seem to be A-okay. No leaks. We walked around the resort and I took some pictures and even took a video of the geese. Not sure I should put that in this page........it's 2:41 minutes and maybe too long? I'll put it onit's own page maybe.


Someone melted in the heat.........

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Day Five page II Geese Video

This is the long one and I thought I downloaded the shorter one so you don't have to go all the way to the end. TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN!

There was one goose that was running loose and he came at my feet. I guess the worst thing you can do is jump back away as it makes the goose come at you furiously! I did and he did. I had to grab him by the neck to stop him! Quite scary. It would have made a good Funniest Home Videos.

Day Four

Sommerville Almond Tree RV Resort




This morning we woke up to a chilly 44 degrees but the little heaters were keeping up pretty good. A quick shot of the furnace and it's toasty warm in here. We're at the Sommerville Almond Tree RV Park. Chuck walked over to the AM/PM but they had no newspapers. He really misses his morning paper.

The sky is clear and the temp is supposed to be 70. We'll be heading out soon for Perris, CA where we'll stay at the Palm View RV Park. Right now we're heading out about 9:30am or so.

Stopped for gas in about Wasco, $1.89 a gal. Not too bad. Doable. Very very foggy for some reason but pleasant temp here. Lots of traffic and 4 gas stations are busy busy. Long lines at the pumps.





The day was kind of hairy! Going around LA, sort of, even using a GPS and having someone telling you what to do and when, isn't all that great. "Take the next left and in 900 feet take a right!" Do you know quickly 900 feet comes up in a 34' motorhome pulling a car in LA traffic?! FAST! So the GPS rerouted us down into town and around. We don't even know what we did but it got us back on track.

The next photo is of Piramid Lake and LA traffic.





We found our way to our RV park for tonight and possibly tomorrow night. We will do a little driving around tomorrow and it'll be nice to not have to pack up and move on again for a couple days.

A day in the life.........

Day Three

DAY 3

The park was great with nice grounds and a few trees between each site. TV was good but couldn't get the local channels like ABC, CBS and NBC. We're learning and hopefully will get the it figured before too long. He went to watch TV in bed and it was lights out for him around 9pm. I stayed up and had some popcorn and watched "Must Love Dogs" but fell asleep with just 15 minutes left of the movie. Missed the ending. It was a cool night for sleeping.

This morning we had our coffee and showered.

We were going to check out a craft sale in the town of Orland at their fair grounds but it didn't start till 10am so we decided not to go. We headed out instead at about 9am stopping for gas and a photo.
Went through Sacramento and took a picture (see below)..........stopped for lunch south side of
Stockton in a rest stop.

The rest stops are getting fuller and fuller the farther south we go. We plan to stop two down the road so hopefully we can get a spot for the night before it gets overcrowded.

Play time during a lunch break at a reststop.


We had to find a WalMart for some cookies............


And one of our stops for gas........this was in Orland, CA, wave to Grandpa! Tyler and Conner!


Gas at home was $1.94 and along the way, we've paid $1.78 and $1.87.

We stopped at the rest stop we had planned to spend the night but there were signs all over the place saying no overnight stays so we found a resort in Coalinga, CA called Sommerville Almond Tree RV Park. Very friendly nice place. We have the satelite all set up and we're watching the Civil War football game on TV. Ducks, Oregon University vs Oregon State being played in Corvallis, OR. The Ducks won against a team that was one game away from the Rose Bowl! Yea! Ducks!

We're snuggly warm, had our reuben hotdogs and watching the game. We have a few movies we may hook up the DVD player and watch one tonight.

Frank and Pixie are doing very well; sleeping all day. Frank likes to watch the birds out the window. Peachy seems to enjoy traveling, too. (Peachy's our little love bird) I'll have to put a picture of him on the blog tomorrow.

More tomorrow.......

Day Two

DAY 2

We traveled over the Siskiyou Mountains and saw some beautiful sights. Took pictures of Mt. Shasta.


Around 3:30 we pulled into the Parkway RV Resort in Orland, CA. A really nice wooded park with all the amenities. We'll have TV tonight if Chuck ever gets things figured out. He's on the phone right now with DirecTV. You never know when and what problems you'll encounter!

Will come back tomorrow and let you know how our day goes.

The Odessey Begins

Novwember 27, 2008 Thursday and Turkey Day!!


Well, we finally got everything loaded; food, clothes, the kitchen sink and all the pets. We hit the road a little early on Thursday, Thanksgiving morning. We were headed for a wonderful turkey dinner with Jen, Dan and the boys in their Kelso home. We were pretty much on time despite the bad traffic. We arrived around noon. Jen is a very cook and managed to keep everything hot while waiting for us. We had a delightful time and it was back down the hill to our waiting RV, pets and car. We were on our way. The odyssey began around 2:30pm turkey day!

We decided on a rest stop for our first night just outside of Eugene, Oregon. It was an unusual rest stop and parking was at a premium but we were early so were able to park first in line so we could make our escape anytime we wanted without having to wait for someone else to leave or asking someone to move so we could get out. A huge tree blocked the signal for DirecTV. Soooooooo,we decided to read. Didn't take long and reading put us to sleep at 8:00pm! We were both awake around 4am and then got up about 5am. have been needed after so work and worry about just getting ready to go. It felt really good.