The Cabin
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Days 28-29
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Days 26-28
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
April 26, 2011
Nights 25-26, –
After a rather long and windy 8 hrs driving day we have arrived in
Nights 23 and 24 –
The last two days we were in
Nights 21-22 –
We were unfortunate enough to pick the worse campground ever invented. Now, when we rate campgrounds, we’ll know what a “1” is. A filthy gravel lot with outlets on power poles. To be fair, they had free WIFI which sort of worked and decent showers, and we really weren’t there much anyway. We spent day 23 visiting
We found west Texas to be not so attractive. We should give it back to Mexico. East Texas was pretty nice.
Trip factoids: We’ve driven about 3500 miles so far, and spent double for repairs what we have for gas.
Repairs: We were able to find new bike tires in
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Day 20 + more photos
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Days 16-19
So the thing is … we need to stop at Camping World in Tucson tomorrow and buy a new fridge/freezer unit (!!$$-ka-ching-$$!!). Yes one more disruption. But hey.. we have our health (knock knock) and the RV is running well now (knock knock). Once we install it, we hope to be done by noon and get on to our next destination, Carlsbad Caverns. By the time we hit the Austin/San Antonio area on the 24th, we’ll be back on schedule.
In order to accommodate the delay, we had to cut out the route through the Petrified Forest and Santa Fe, and one day near Austin saving 6 days in all. But we were lucky enough to visit the Reed Petrified Forest in Sky Forest, CA and get this nice shot of us next to a HUGE petrified tree thingy. Speaking of Sky Forest, our undying gratitude goes to my brother Dan and sister in law Diane for tolerating us for an entire 6 nights. We did some cool stuff, had some great food and really enjoyed the solitude of their place in the woods.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Days 13-15
OK, so while we wait for word on the disposition of the RV transmission, we took a trip to Universal Studios Theme Park. It was good fun and a nice diversion from the woes of the broken RV. I guess you can say that the tickets to Universal Studios cost us over $2,000 .. when you include the cost of the transmission repairs.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip - Days 10-12
Yes, so, stuff happens, OK? We had a great stay at Deb's sister Carolyn and Gary's place in Morgan Hill. hit a bucket 'ol balls, took some hikes. Great food. Then drove to past Bakerfield overt Tehachapi Pass and en route to our campground the transmission decided to taker a barf onto the ground. So we had it towed to a shop in Lancaster, CA when they are going to drop the tranny and see what's up.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Cross Country Road Trip, Days 5-9
Day 5 – April 6, 2011 -
A day of rest and sightseeing. Spent the morning checking out the RV, inflating tires, etc. Found one bike tire with a large hole. In the afternoon, we trekked to
Factoid: The RV has been getting around 7.5 mpg, and we fill at about 1/3 tank. So we usually put in around 20-25 gal every ~ 150-200 miles. Gas in WA and OR has been in the $3.65-$3.80 range, and we try to stop at Safeway, Fred Meyer or Costco when we can.
Day 6, April 7 – Destination:
Today we met good friends Nancy and Wayne at
Days 7-8, April 8-9 - Bodega Bay
Great weather and nice beaches. Brought out the bikes and was able to test Kyle's new adaptive trailer with the electric bike conversion. Good fun. On Sat, the bike died going up a steep hill. Turned out to be a blown fuse - too much work for it I guess. We modified Deb’s bike with an electric front wheel hub motor, so getting up hill is way easier when trying to pull that additional 150 lbs (trailer+Kyle). I also got out the kite. Weather on the first day was perfect…warm and mildly breezy. The second day was breezier, but still pretty nice. The solar panel has done a great job recharging the batteries during the day. It seems to be more or less keeping up with the draws, mostly water pump, TV and heater motor. The lights at night draw almost nothing, because I installed LED bulbs. Factoid: GULP! Gas in Calif is a bit on the pricy side, but then, we expected that. The most we paid so far is $4.19 in Novato, CA. $100 to fill up.
Day 9, April 10 / Destination: Morgan Hill, CA
Drove the short distance to Morgan Hill, near San Jose to see Deb's sister Carolyn and husband Gary. Beautiful weather.