Hello again, welcome back. Our last
chapter concluded on Friday, August 16th, while we were in
Placerville, California camping at the Placerville Elks Lodge
enjoying our last full day in the area.
The next day, Saturday, was another
moving day for us. We packed up and left the Placerville Elks about
10:30 and started the 65 mile trip south to the Lodi Elks Lodge. The
Lodi Lodge is actually in the little town of Woodbridge, just north
of Lodi. We have stayed at this lodge before. They only have about
eight spots, but most of them look out over a big, green park that is
part of the lodge property. The lodge building is the former
Woodbridge Country Club, which the Elks bought when the club built a
new clubhouse.
They don't take reservations at Lodi,
so we were hoping that there would be a vacancy. We were surprised
when we pulled into the lot and saw that there was only one RV in the
lot, and it belonged to the park host. We thought we were really
lucky until we saw some signs that the RV park was closed for an
event. There were a bunch of tables and chairs set up on the lawn
too. The camp hosts came out to greet us and told us that the lodge
was having a luau tonight and that they had told the camp hosts to
close the RV park and not let any RVs in because there would be so
many people coming to the event. However, they said that they would
allow the spot right next to the camp host to be used, and they said
we could have it. Yea, we have a place to stay.
We got moved in pretty quick and went
into the lodge to see if they had any tickets left for the luau. We
had fun at the Carmicheal luau last week, so we thought it would be
fun to go to this one too. The bartender had tickets, so we bought
two and are going to our second luau this month. We then went out to
get a quick couple of caches. It was nearly 100 degrees, so we
didn't want to be out too long. We were able to get three in about a
half hour, so we have now extended our consecutive days caching
streak to over 50 days and are still on track with the every day in
August challenge. After caching we went back to the coach to cool
off.
After we had cooled down a little we
changed into our luau clothes and about 5:00 went outside for
cocktails out on the lawn with the camp hosts and some of their
family. Although it was warm, we were in the shade of some big trees
and there was a little breeze, so it was quite nice. Around 6:00 we
walked across the lawn to where they had the luau set up and bought a
cocktail from the bar there so we would have one of the bar's
glasses. For the rest of the night we would refill from out supply
in the coach.
We got a table and visited with some of
the people sitting around us who were members of the Lodi Elks. They
had over a hundred people at the party and they were a very friendly
group. Around 7:00 the served dinner, which was pork, of course,
chicken, a nice salad, some fruit, and sweet potato fries. The
quality of the food, which was all cooked at the lodge by volunteers,
was very good and they gave you plenty to eat. At 8:00 they started
the entertainment, which was another local dance group specializing
in Polynesian dance. This was a larger group than the one at the
Carmichael lodge last week. This group had four male singers and
drummers, a couple of which danced occasionally, and five very
attractive girls who did most of the dancing. As with the group last
week, they had about four costume changes along with different styles
of dance. They didn't do as much audience participation as the group
last week, but overall they were a more talented and entertaining
group. They put on a show for nearly an hour, after which the DJ
started playing some 50's and 60's rock for people to dance to.
Overall it was an excellent luau and we were glad that we had the
opportunity to come. The people were great and the party a lot of
fun.
About 9:15 our friend Fern Lenordini
stopped by the coach to visit. Fern and her husband Andy live here
in Lodi, not too far from the lodge, and operate a vineyard. They
don't make wine, they wholesale the grapes, which are very nice old
vine Zin, to other people to make wine with. Fern and Andy are the
primary reason we stop here in Lodi every couple years. We knew that
Fern was going to come by this evening because she and Jackie had
talked earlier in the day. She had been working at her daughter's
restaurant this evening and wanted to come by and visit after work.
This has been the first time that we
have been able to actually talk to Fern since the death of our dear
friend Colleen Cohen last month. We actually met Fern and Andy in
the Coachella Valley through Barry and Colleen. Fern and Andy had a
winter home in the same country club where Barry and Colleen lived at
the time and Andy was one of Barry's best friends. We became friends
with them back in the late 90's and have stayed fairly close since.
They are older than we are, in their late 70's, and they have sold
their place in the Coachella Valley, so we only see them when come
through Lodi.
We spent an hour or so visiting and
catching up, but mostly talking about Colleen and her sudden illness
and death. Fern left a little after 11:00 with the promise that we
would get together with her and Andy sometime during our stay here in
Lodi. After Fern left we went off to bed.
Sunday, August 18th, I went
out as soon as I got up and got a couple of Sunday papers. We like
to relax on Sundays with the paper in the morning. We decided that
this was going to be a stay at home day, something we hadn't done in
a while. We did go out about 2:00 and got our cache of the day, but
we only drove about a half mile, got the cache and went right back to
the coach. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be hot, over 100
degrees, so we will not be doing too much caching for a couple days
at least. We spent the entire day inside, doing a few chores,
playing games and watching TV.
Monday we were looking at another 100
degree plus day. I was craving an In & Out burger, and there
just happened to be one not too far from the Elks, so we went there
for lunch. After lunch we found four quick geocaches in or near the
parking lot of the shopping center in which the In & Out was
located. This took care of our cache of the day requirement. Once
we found our caches we drove south into nearby Stockton to visit the
Best Buy store to pick up a part I ordered. I had needed a small
part for the old laptop that I use for navigation when we are driving
the coach and because the computer is about nine years old, ancient
by computer standards, the part I needed wasn't available in store
stock, even at Fry's Electronics, which has most everything. Best
Buy did have it online, so I ordered a week ago and had it delivered
to the store in Stockton because I knew we would be in the area this
week.
After I picked up my part we spent an
hour or so walking around the mall that was adjacent to the Best Buy.
Actually, Best Buy was one of the anchor stores, which is a little
unusual. A number of the shopfronts inside the mall were vacant,
including one of the three big anchor store locations. The Macy's
was still at one end, but I don't know what the other store had been
as there were no signs visible from it's previous life. Once we were
done with our mall walking we headed back to the coach where we spent
the rest of the day trying to stay cool.
Tuesday, August 20th, we
left the coach after lunch to do our laundry and some other errands.
We first stopped and picked up one quick geocache for our cache of
the day, then went on to the laundromat, which was only a couple
miles from the lodge. It took a couple of hours to get all the
laundry done and then we stopped at the local Walmart and Safeway
stores for supplies. Once our shopping was done we headed home and
stayed out of the heat for the rest of the afternoon and evening.
Wednesday we went out after lunch again
to do some geocaching on our last full day here in Lodi. The weather
had cooled off somewhat, in the low 90's today, so we set a goal of
getting ten new finds, which would take us over the next milestone of
5,600 finds. We cached for a couple of hours and were able to get
our ten finds, along with two DNFs. Yea! After caching we stopped
at a couple of stores so Jackie could look for a small table she
wants for inside the coach. She wants to replace the rather ugly
tray we use at the end of our dining room table with something a
little nicer looking.
We didn't find what Jackie wanted, but
at our last stop at Staples, the office supply store, I found a very
nice office chair on sale and bought it. I have been wanting to get
rid of the original barrel chair in my back “office” that came
with the coach. It is an OK chair, but it is too low for working
comfortably at my desk, which is where I spend my time when in the
back. I found a nice, high back leather office chair on sale for $90
that was very comfortable and just what I wanted. After we packed
the box with the unassembled chair in the back of the Jeep we headed
back to the RV park.
Thursday, August 22nd,
another travel day. Since we have been staying at Elks Lodges for
the last few weeks in sites with no sewer we have been limiting our
stays to five days. We could go longer, but it would be
inconvenient. With a five day stay we can dump the holding tanks,
move on to the next lodge and stay another five days. Today we left
the Lodi lodge around 10:30 and started south on Highway 99, heading
for the town of Oakhurst, California and the Elks Lodge there. We
have never been to Oakhurst, which is located about 45 miles north of
Fresno and 45 miles south of the main part of Yosemite National Park.
The drive, about 150 miles, was a
little taxing as there was a lot of construction on Highway 99 south
of Stockton and a lot of traffic too. Once we got off 99 and started
east towards the Sierra Nevada's on the secondary highways the roads
got a little narrow and the coach started running a little hot as we
hit the grades leading up into the foothills. Oakhurst is only a
little under 3,000 feet elevation, but with nearly 100 degree temps
even climbing that far with the coach puts a lot of strain on the
engine. We never overheated, but I was in the yellow zone a couple
of times.
We finally got to the Oakhurst Elks
about 1:30 or so and found a spot in their RV park. I had been
concerned that we might not be able to get into the park since,
unlike most Elks Lodges, have their park open to the public. It is
also only 12 miles from the south entrance to Yosemite, and is the
closest RV park. However, Jackie had talked to someone at the lodge
yesterday and they said they only had a few rigs in the park. When
we got there we found they did only have two on the lower level and
two on the upper level. The upper level is not not suitable for big
rigs like ours, so we found a nice spot on the lower level, which is
still a hundred feet above the highway on a bluff, and got settled
in. The lodge was not open,
Friday, August 23rd, we left
the coach after lunch to do some geocaching in the Oakhurst area. We
cached for a couple of hours and were able to get six new finds,
along with one DNF. One of the caches was a virtual that took us to
the Fresno Flats Historical Park, a cute little area with a number of
restored buildings from the time of the founding of Fresno. A good
place to provide a little information about the town of Oakhurst.
Unlike the other “Gold Country”
towns we have been to over the last few weeks, like Nevada City,
Grass Valley, and Placerville, Oakhurst was not founded as a mining
town. The town was founded in the late 1850's and was populated at
first by people who had come to California for the gold, but were
unsuccessful and disenchanted with the mining life and wanted to
settle down to a more normal lifestyle. The town, which was founded
as Fresno Flats, soon became the center for local agriculture,
ranching and timbering, as well as providing some support for the
many mining towns scattered around in the higher mountains.
The town also became known as the
gateway to Yosemite, the area which had been placed under Federal
protection by Congress and President Lincoln in 1864, the first
instance of wilderness land being set aside specifically for
conservation and public use. This action set the stage for the
creation of the National Park system in 1872, with Yellowstone being
the first actual National Park. Yosemite gained that status in 1890.
The name of the town was changed to Oakhurst in 1912.
At the turn of the century the town was
bypassed by both the regional railroad and the new highway into
Yosemite and when the depression closed the main timber mill the town
was close to fading into history. However, in the late 30's a new
highway, Highway 41, was built from Fresno into Yosemite National
Park and the road was built right through the middle of Oakhurst,
bringing new life to the city as a tourist town, supporting visitors
to Yosemite. Although the Census Bureau set the 2010 population of
Oakhurst at just over 2,800, the town, in various publications and on
the official highway welcome signs, set the population at just over
13,000. The Census Bureau only recognizes the population within the
six square mile boundary of the town as recognized by the State,
while the town considers the larger surrounding area in it's
estimates.
After our caching we made a quick stop
at the drug store for a couple things and then went back to the coach
to cool off and relax for a few minutes before going to the Oakhurst
Elks Lodge for a visit. Having looked at their website, we knew that
the lodge wasn't open on a regular basis, but that they probably
would be open tonight for Friday night dinner. About 5:00 we went up
to the lodge, which is on the second tier of the mountainside on
which the lodge and RV park are built, and is directly above the
coach, accessible via a staircase. We found about a dozen people or
so in the lounge already and we sat down at the bar for a drink. The
volunteer bartender was the Exalted Ruler's wife and the ER himself
was taking orders for dinner. They had spaghetti and meatballs
tonight, so we decided to buy a couple of tickets. We had cocktails
and chatted with the bartender and a couple of other people while
waiting for dinner. We also picked up a lodge pin for our banner.
Dinner was served at 6:00 and we all went into the dining room. They
served dinner family style, just putting bowls of food out on the
tables for everyone to share. We were at a table for eight and had a
very nice chat with all of the people. This is a very friendly
lodge. The dinner was quite tasty and included dessert. After
dessert we excused ourselves and went back to the coach for the rest
of the evening.
Saturday, August 25th, we
were showered, dressed, and out of the coach by 9:45 this morning,
heading north to visit Yosemite National Park. We were about 12
miles south of the south entrance to the park, and about 45 miles
from the main part of the park in Yosemite Valley. I talked a little
bit about the history of the park in yesterday's entry, so I will
give just a few of the pertinent facts about the park here. The park
is nearly 1,200 square miles in size, however about 89 percent of
that land is designated as wilderness and is mostly inaccessible.
The park gets nearly four million visitors a year and the vast
majority of them spend all of their time within the six square miles
that comprise the floor of the Yosemite Valley.
It took us a little over an hour to get
to the visitor's center in Yosemite Valley, including a brief stop on
the way to pick up our one needed geocache for the day. The roads
are narrow, hilly and curvy, and within the park the max speed is 35
MPH, which makes for slow going. It does make it easier to see
wildlife though. We saw an eagle perched on a rock next to the road,
two different coyotes, several deer and a lot of the little mammals
and birds that populate the area. 
Although the bears that used to sit on
the road and beg for food are gone, we did find one coyote that had
learned a thing or two about people. He was laying in the dirt in a
turnoff at the side of the road, just looking like a skinny, scroungy
dog, but, of course, everyone who spotted him had to stop and take
his picture. When we came back an hour later going the other way, he
was still there, but now standing next to a car letting them throw
food out of the window for him. He wouldn't get closer than a few
feet to the car, but he wasn't running away either. He has figured
out that laying around looking “cute and wild” and getting people
food beat running around in the heat trying to catch squirrels. Work
smarter, not harder.
We spent about ninety minutes walking
around the village, going to the visitor's center, checking the shops
and museums and having lunch at one of the restaurants. We then
continued our driving tour of the valley and also taking the ninety
minute round trip drive to Glacier point, a destination on top of one
of the mountains overlooking the valley that gives you a view of the
entire valley from nearly 4,000 feet above the valley floor. After
driving around the park for a while, taking in the sights and
enjoying the
splendor of nature, we headed back to the coach, getting
there about 4:30, just in time for cocktails. We stayed in the rest
of the night.
Sunday, August 25th, we left
the RV park around 1:30 and drove about a half mile down the road to
the Golden Chain Theater for an afternoon of community theater. A
few days back, while we were caching in town, I saw a poster for this
theater advertising their summer melodrama presentations. We noted
that they were having a Sunday matinee performance today, so we
decided to take it in. The tickets were only ten dollars and they
had free popcorn and a full bar, who could resist.
I have been to a number of community
theater productions over the years, but never to a true melodrama
theater, where the audience participates by booing the villain and
cheering the hero throughout the play. We got into the playhouse,
were greeted by some very nice people, and went to the bar where I
got a beer and Jackie got some wine. We got our free popcorn and
went to our table.Today's presentation was actually two separate short melodramas, the first was “Run to the roundhouse Nellie, he can't corner you there!” This was a three act play that takes place around a railroad yard. Before the play started a couple of girls got up in period costume and performed the Can Can. We were in the front row of tables and at the end when the girls took off their garters and flung them into the audience one landed on the table right in front of me. The play was cute, lots of booing, hissing and cheering. In the end the villain was run over the train he had hoped would hit the heroine whom he had tied to the track.
The second play was called “The
Shagwood Secret” and took place in a saloon. Some of the same
actors played in both plays, but the second had several more than the
first. The hero from the first play portrayed the villain in the
second, and was a much better villain than hero. All together,
including the brief intermission between plays, they put on a two
hour show that was very entertaining. Very cheesy sets, cheesy
acting, cheesy lines but great comedy, especially he second play.
Lots of laugh out loud moments. It was a very enjoyable way to spend
an afternoon. After the play we stopped and got one geocache for our
cache of the day and then went back to the coach where we stayed the
rest of the evening.
Monday was already our last full day in
Oakhurst. We left the RV park about 12:30 and drove a mile or so
south to El Cid, a Mexican restaurant we have noticed has always got
a lot of cars around it every time we drive by. It was moderately
busy today and the service was a bit slow to get started. They had
an interesting menu with lots of choices. We did notice that they
are not an inexpensive place, not real pricy, but a little higher
than you find at most mom and pop type Mexican places. The three
item combo selections were almost $13. I had one with a red chili
burro, enchilada and taco, Jackie had one with a chili relleno,
chicken taco and chicken enchilada. Both meals were good, but not
exceptional. Given the fact that this place is popular, the other
choices in town must be pretty bad. If we were in the area again I
probably wouldn't come back.
After lunch we decided to drive down to
the Bass Lake area for some sight seeing and geocaching. Bass Lake
itself was the first hydroelectric project in central California,
with the first dam being built in 1901. The current rock and earth
dam was built in 1910 and the project is still producing electricity
for the San Joaquin Valley. The lake itself is not real large, about
a half mile wide and four miles long, however, it is a major
recreational asset for the area with several
marinas. There is also
a very nice housing area along the north shore which has about
600 homes, many of which are very large and nice. We spent a couple
of hours driving around the neighborhood, looking at homes and
geocaching. We ended up with ten new finds.
After our caching we took the long way
home by driving south from the lake to the town of North Fork, then
heading west to pick up Highway 41 where we drove back north, through
Oakhurst and eventually back to home. It was a very nice afternoon.
Tuesday, August 27th, was
another travel day. We had the coach packed up and pulled out of the
Oakhurst Elks about 10:00 headed straight south on Highway 41 to the
City of Fresno and the Fresno Elks. The trip was only 44 miles and
the first ten miles out of Oakhurst were up a very steep grade, so we
decided to not hook up the car and just let Jackie follow me for the
trip. The trip went quickly and we found ourselves in the Fresno
Elks, hooked up, set up and ready to go caching before 1:00. We have
stayed at the Fresno Elks several times before. They have ten sites
behind the lodge with water and 30 amp electric with all of the sites
overlooking a retention basin that is always full of water, so you
basically have a nice lake view, complete with ducks.
After we had lunch we went out to pick
up our mail, which we had sent to the UPS Customer Service Center in
Fresno, and to do some caching to ensure we had our cache of the day.
We picked up the mail and started caching, getting four new finds
and one DNF before deciding that the mid-90's temps and humidity were
a bit too much. With that we went back home where we spent the rest
of the afternoon and evening. I did a few chores around the house,
including finally putting together my new desk chair that I had
bought a week ago when we were in Lodi.
Wednesday, August 28th, we
went out after lunch for a Walmart run. On the way we stopped and
picked up our necessary geocache of the day. Only three more days to
complete the 31 days of August challenge. After shopping we went
back to the coach and put stuff away and cooled off from the almost
100 degree temps. About 4:30 we left again for a quick run to Costco
and then to go over to Jackie's cousin Stephanie's house for dinner.
Stephanie's husband Ron is working out of town, but she and the kids
will be there and we wanted to be able to spend some time with them.
We picked up a couple of roasted
chickens at Costco, they make the best, and then stopped at another
grocery for some mashed potatoes and mac and cheese, so when we
arrived at the door we had a complete dinner. That included some
vodka for Jackie and I since we had picked up a couple bottles at
Costco. We had a great time with dinner and visiting with Stephanie
and the two younger kids, Bryce and Madi. The older son, Tyler, came
home just before we left. Tyler graduated from High School last
spring and is now going to Junior college in Fresno. We finally left
about 9:00 and went back to the coach for the evening. We will be
back with the family on Saturday to do some geocaching. The two kids
really enjoy caching, and on Saturday Ron will be home for the
weekend, so we can see him too.
Thursday, August 29th, we
headed out from the lodge about 1:30 and drove to a nearby mall to go
to the movies. Today we selected We're The Millers, a romantic
comedy with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudakis, one of the Saturday
Night Live cast members. The crux of the movie was that Sudakis was
a small time drug dealer who gets pressured into going into Mexico to
pick up a load of marijuana and bring it back across the border and
up to Denver. He decides that the best way to avoid problems is to
rent an RV and get a fake family to accompany him. Aniston is a a
stripper who lives in his apartment building. He also gets help from
a teenage boy who lives in the building and a homeless teenage girl
who happens by. There is no redeeming social value to this film, it
has no life meanings, no messages, and there is no reason to go see
it unless you want to be well entertained for 90 minutes. The
writing is great, if a little raw, but then they are a drug dealer
and a stripper. Some great action parts when they are being chased
by the Mexican cartel folks, and, being a romantic comedy, everything
comes out great at the end. Both of us really enjoyed the film which
had a lot of laugh out loud moments. After the film we went out and
did a few geocaches, getting four new finds and one DNF. We then
went back to the coach and relaxed the rest of the evening.
Friday, August 30th, we went
out after lunch to do some caching. We were able to get four new
finds in less than an hour. We then decided we needed to get some
fuel for the Jeep and a badly needed car wash. The car wash was busy
and the Jeep was so dirty they had to run it through twice, so pretty
much killed most of the afternoon. After our chores we headed back
to the coach, cooled off a bit, changed clothes and drove over to the
Clovis Elks Lodge, only about five miles away from the Fresno Elks
where we are parked.
We went to the Clovis Elks to meet our
friends Jeanne and LeRoy Foote for dinner. Jackie and Jeanne went to
high school together in Los Angeles and were not in touch until a
couple years ago when they reunited as a result of the school's 50th
reunion. We had dinner with them back in April when we came through
Fresno on our way north. They were at a large table with a bunch of
friends and we had a great time with everyone. After an hour or so
of cocktails they served dinner which was some very nice New York
steaks cooked perfectly. We were ready to leave about 9:00 but
Jackie and Jeanne had been talking about geocaching and Jackie found
that there was a cache located only a few hundred feet from the
lodge, so the four of us walked over there so we could sort of
demonstrate geocaching to them. We found the cache, which was a very
nice hide, and they were impressed. After that we got in the car,
drove back home and chilled the rest of the evening.
Saturday, August 31st, we
had told Stephanie that we would be over in the morning so we could
go out and do some geocaching with her kids before it got too hot.
We were out of the coach by 9:45 and on our way to Stephanie's. When
we got there we chatted for a bit with Ron, her husband, who was home
for the weekend. He is working on a big solar energy project out
near San Luis Obispo and is only home on the weekends. About 10:30
Ron, Stephanie and their daughter Madi got in the car with Jackie and
I and we went out for some caching. The other two kids were busy
with friends. We were able to get nine new caches, along with a DNF,
in a couple of hours. Each of the members of our little “team”
for the day had at least one find and everyone seemed to have a good
time. I think Ron and Stephanie would geocache on their own except
that they already have a busy schedule with the kids and with work
for the two of them.
After our nine finds we decided it was
getting too warm and Ron had some things he had to get done around
the house, so we went back and dropped them off at home and said our
goodbyes. We may see Ron again next week when we are in the Central
Coast area, but we probably won't see Stephanie and Madi until next
spring. After we dropped them off we drove to the BJ's Brewhouse
restaurant not too far from the Elks and had a nice big lunch. We
have been to a couple different BJ's stores now around California and
really like the place. They have a great menu, good portions, and
great food. I had Jambalaya which was nearly as good as what I have
gotten in New Orleans. Jackie had a chicken pasta dish that she said
was good too. After lunch we went back to the coach and just stayed
in the rest of the day.
Sunday, September 1st, the 15th
anniversary of Jackie and I being together. It was this day in 1998
that I moved from Phoenix to Indio to be with Jackie. Fifteen
wonderful years and I am looking forward to spending the next fifteen
with my best friend and best love exploring everything life has to
offer. We spent the morning as we usually do on Sundays, reading the
paper and watching the news. About 11:00 or so we left the coach and
headed over to Jeanne and LeRoy's house in Clovis. Jeanne is a
retired hairdresser and still does friends hair in her house. She
had offered on Friday to do Jackie's hair today, so we were on our
way over there for that. They have a very nice, older home in the
suburbs of Clovis. Jeanne gave Jackie a haircut while LeRoy and I
chatted. The haircut turned out nice and I think Jackie is happy
with it.
After the haircut we took Jeanne and
LeRoy in our car and we drove to Sal's Mexican Restaurant to meet the
two other couples with whom we had dinner on Friday at the Elks.
They were already in the restaurant when we got there, so we didn't
have to wait. Jeanne told us that Sunday lunches at Sal's were
something this group did quite often. The food was pretty good, a
lot better than we had at the place in Oakhurst last week. We had a
nice time talking to the group. After lunch everyone followed us
back to the Fresno Elks so they could see our coach. Jeanne and
LeRoy hadn't seen it since the remodel, and the other two couples
just wanted to see what we lived in. They are all RVers, but none of
them have a big RV. We showed off the coach and talked for a while
before everyone left to go back to their homes. After everyone left
we went out and got one close-by geocache, just to keep our
consecutive days streak alive, and then spent the rest of the
afternoon and evening relaxing.
Monday, September 2nd, Happy Labor Day.
Today was a moving day again. We left the Fresno Elks about 10:30
and completed the arduous 47 mile trek south to the Visalia Elks
Lodge. Since it was early on the holiday we didn't have much traffic
and it was an easy trip. There was only one other coach in the lodge
RV park and they have 16 spaces, so it is not real popular when the
temperatures in are close to 100. We parked and got set up pretty
quickly. For the first time in a couple weeks we have 50 amp
electric service, so we can run both A/Cs. Yea! Once we got set up
we went out and got one geocache for our streak then returned to the
coach for an easy day off. No labor on labor day!
Our move here to Visalia marks a good
spot to close this chapter and get it published. We will be here for
four days and then we move over to the Central Coast area and San
Luis Obispo. The weather should be cooler over there and we get to
spend time with Jackie's family. Until the next episode, remember
the words of the famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead.” See ya.
