Here's where we 'live' half the year

This is Bay Pines RV Park, where we live half the year, and where we will be "stable" the next six months... we're about half a mile from the beach. So we are really close to the water, but far enough away from the coast that we do not get the sea spray and messy seagulls (!).

The photo of the trailer immediately below this post was taken today after we got settled back in.

The trailer and truck are FILTHY so both will need a serious cleaning inside and out this week.

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Back at home base

Home at last!

We arrived back at home base (Morro Bay) around noon today. Pearl is already itchin (literally) for a walk on 'dog beach.' We will try to get to that tomorrow.

Thanks for sharing our trip with us! The blog has been fun :)    (D)

Last night on the road, literally

We spent our last night on the road at Cholame, Calif., at a crowded rest area on highway 46. This rest stop is just down the road from the James Dean Tree – the tree planted at the spot where Dean was killed in a car crash in 1955. (He ran into a Cal Poly student who pulled out onto the highway in front of his car.) The highway is still two lane, still very crowded, and still one of the most dangerous highways in America.

Here’s a snapshot of our trip, by the numbers:

Miles driven: 10,800

Miles per gallon, average: 12.09

Most expensive fuel: $3.89 (Calif.)

Least expensive fuel: $2.19 (Okla.)

States visited: 26

 

Stay-in nights…

RV parks, 26

National park campgrounds, 9

Corps of Engineers campgrounds, 8

Wal-Mart parking lots, 7

Forest service campgrounds, 5

Casinos (Terri says “Woo hoo!), 4

State park campgrounds, 3

Rest areas, 2

Didn’t stop at all at night (almost 1 - ok, 2)

 

National parks visited:

Smoky Mountain

Theodore Roosevelt

Yellowstone

Grand Teton

Yosemite