This is the dirtiest the coach has been in the almost 7 years we have had her.
We are spending tonight – Wednesday – in the Orange Grove RV Park just outside of Bakersfield, CA. We have stopped here several times in the past and we love it. As you can see from the photo we got the coach and car a little dirty. We came down Calif. 99 from just south of Stockton today. Highway 99 connects all of the main farming communities in California’s Central Valley so there are lots of farm-related trucks, large and small, that are pretty muddy all the time. Combine that mud with a very dusty day because of high winds with some rain thrown in and you get a dirty GMC.
The good news is that we have now found another reason to love the Orange Grove RV Park… they have free wash area that is a concrete pad with a long hose and water provided. We plan to get there tomorrow morning and wash both the GMC and the Tracker. We stopped earlier at a new WalMart just north of Bakersfield and bought car wash soap and a nice soft – will-not-scratch – brush on the end of a collapsible aluminum pole. I was going to do the “midnight car wash” trick but now will not have to. Besides, it is still raining.
So, we left Coos Bay on Monday morning after breakfast and final goodbyes. We wanted to go down US-101 because it is so beautiful but we didn’t feel like we had all the time we wanted. We had to get home and get ready to move Carol’s Mom down to the Tucson area (from Mesa) in a week or two, and we have new tenants moving into our seasonal rental at The Highlands where we live on Nov. 1st. So, we went back over to I-5 over Oregon highway 42 – a very nice road – and made it to Weed, CA by about 3:00p.m. I wanted to stop at Weed and buy a t-shirt so that was our goal for the day. The campground was OK – the Friendly RV Park just south of town – but what a cold place. It got down to 34 degrees by 5:00a.m. It was a good thing I had the furnace going.
Tuesday, we decided to go past Sacramento to a little county park that we had found on a previous trip when we needed a dump station between visits in San Jose and Shingle Springs. The name of the park is Dos Reis County Park in Lathrop. It is just south of Stockton on I-5. Turned out to be a really nice place to spend the night. It is far enough from the highway – about 1/2 mile – to be nice and quiet and it was not busy at all. The sites are $25 per night with electricity, sewer and water – full hookups to us. It is right on a river (there are lots of them around here) but has a really high levee between the campground and the river. Overall, very nice.
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