Lake Havasu

We had a really nice drive through the Mohave and into Arizona, and we are presently located at Lake Havasu Resort on the north end of the city, near the airport.  It is quiet, away from the busier part of town near the London Bridge.  The RV resort is fairly new, with large cement pads and all the amenities.  They sell the RV lots here, and as some are not sold, the developer allows for nightly/weekly/monthly rentals.

The park noted that there was wifi only at the office, but we are at one of the sites furthest from the office, and I do not have a booster, and wifi is coming in just fine.

Tomorrow we will be off to the local information centre and of course, London Bridge.  Our plan is to stay here for 3 days anyway, and we have to be in Desert Hot Springs on Friday. Tonight we drove out to the bridge and had a look at how it was dressed in lights for the season.

Our dog and cat continue to be excellent little travellers.

Mom, where is the grass????

those tacos are hot!

 

Our appointment at 10:00 am at Camping World did not work out very well.  Yesterday, they informed us that they were able to do the warranty work, made the appointment.  This morning, they informed us that they still had to call Jayco for authorization and that would not happen till Monday, and no, they did not have parts for the other items.  So, we packed up the RV, went back to Bakersfield, all for naught.  We left, stopped at Wally World for groceries, and headed out with only half a day left.

We are in Yermo at a KOA.  If we get an early start tomorrow, we can make Lake Havasu City, and stay for a couple of days.  After all, there is football tomorrow and Monday Night!

It was still an interesting drive, looking at the windfarms along the way, and now that we are up and out of the valley, the air has cleared.  Donald tried some tacos at a stand today - he said they were very good, but hot!

 

 The gas station fuel pumps have been asking for our zip codes, and we have used the trick of your postal codes numbers, plus 2 zeros at the end.  It has worked everywhere except at 2 places, and both of those were Texaco stations.  You can still get fuel, you just have to go in and pay cash and have the attendant set it for what you think you need.

My brother emailed today that they have had 150 cm of snow in the last 4 days - yikes!  The conversation today while driving was that we are having a hard time thinking it is December, as we have never been away in the winter.

Citrus smell...mmmm.......

Thanks to fellow blogger, Rick, we are now smelling the oranges!  We are at Bakersfield in Orange Grove RV Park.  It is lovely.  We had a 8:15 am start from Santa Nella, and believe me that is just about a record for us.  Off on the I- 5 to turn off at Highway 46, with the town of Wasco on the way.  The I - 5 was continuing to be a very bouncy, rough road and Highway 46 was so smooth!  There were miles and miles of almond farms.  Also on this highway, was Wasco State Prison, and it was very big!

As we were early into Bakersfield, we put the street address in our GPS for Camping World and spent a couple of hours there, discussing the merits of generators vs solar for our fifth wheel.  No decision has been made.  Our 5th wheel is already prepped for an on-board generator, with a start station in the kitchen area.  We are not keen on the noise, weight or fuel.  A solar set up would work well for our latitudes in the summer and here in the winter, and be more "green".  We will see and comments are welcome.

Since we did not pursue fixing the big slide in Anderson, we have booked an appointment at Camping World tomorrow at 10:00 am to have that fixed.  The Orange Grove provides a fantastic area to wash your RV's and we spent a couple of hours this afternoon to complete that task - we were filthy after the drive down.  Now perhaps, we look schmanzy enough to hang out at the Orange Grove for another day breathing in the citrus!

 Oh yes, Donald put on shorts this morning.

Arnie needs to fix some roads

We had a good drive today from Anderson California to Santa Nella.  Very foggy, but the torrential rains have left us, whoo hoo!  Both of us were quite nervous about driving through Sacramento and Stockton, but it was fairly easy, except for the terrible road bed conditions.  I am afraid our poor cat was jostled about in the fifth wheel, along with everything else. We visited Governor Arnolds website last evening, reading up about lighting the Christmas Tree and the budget deficit that California is under, but,  we did see a number of areas of road construction work going on.

It is too bad there is no pulling over on the I 5, because we saw fields of snow geese and some other birds we would have loved to see longer and closer. Tonight, we perused through our bird books, but were unsuccessful at identifying the "stork like" birds. We also enjoyed driving by many fields of olive trees and orange trees, and we could smell the oranges as we drove by.

Now that we are in the warm and drier weather, we would like to slow down and stay a couple of days on one place so we can look around.   Bakersfield seems to be the next place.

The poor dog does not sleep when we travel in the truck, so when we are stopped, she hops into one of the front seats and really passes out, as I caught her snoring within minutes.  Pretty tough for an old dog who sleeps most of the day and night.
She got a good walk to the local Starbucks this afternoon !

It was a dark and stormy night.....

I think we need to soon start our daily stories with " it was a dark and stormy night.." because that is what we have had just about every night since we left the north.  Last evening at 7 Feathers RV Resort in Canyonville, Oregon was indeed dark and stormy with a howling gusty wind.  Luckily, Donald slept through it. 

Laundry was started in their beautiful laundry room when it was still dark out, and we managed to get it done prior to 8:30 am. We checked the road cams for the Siskyou Pass, and it showed only intermittent showers, and there was already some sun shining through the clouds at the park. So, we left our rainy site and started on our journey.

Well, I had fully planned on taking more pictures, but the heavens let loose just about all the way!  We had torrential rain almost all day, and we are still in the rain tonight. A wee visit here in Anderson to Wal*mart for some groceries, then we found a place: JGW RV Park.  Nice park, great wifi and cable.

For supper, we picked out a fish place in the area around Wal*mart.  We had a nice window seat and shortly after receiving our meals we were entertained by 2 Anderson Police vehicles/officers roaring up right by the window, talking to a fellow, then a search and 'pat down' of said person.  He received a ticket for something after that. 

Tomorrow, we will be calling the RV dealer close by, who is listed on the Jayco website, to see if we can possibly have our large slide adjusted.  Plans to be made after that.