Showing posts with label RV Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RV Park. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2018

April 15th - The trip begins



We start the first leg of the trip home.  The first thing we need to do is get through all the SoCal areas we know.  Santee to 52 to 15 to 76 to 5. Then the 405 up through LA back to I-5 whick we took into the San Joaquin Valley.  We stopped at a diner for dinner and took hwy 46 which we took back over the hills west towards 101 and stopped for the night at an RV park in Paso Robles.  We stayed the night at The Vines RV Park.  it was pretty nice, we parked, got situated and slept.

The only significant stop through all of this, besides dinner,  is to visit a rest stop just north of Camp Pendleton.  Laid out very pretty (watch for snakes!!) a view of the hwy and almost the ocean.  We picked up a GEOCACHE there.

Up through the Los Padres National Forest north of Los Angeles was some very pretty country.  The hills were just covered in large swaths of Marigolds.


My navigator

"He's not listening!!"

Rest Area

Geocache 150 for me





Los Padres



Marigolds


Tuesday, February 6, 2018

January 2018 - Welcome to the future

Life continues at Rio Bend RV and Golf Resort.  She works, I work (though not nearly as many hours).  What's really nice is the amazing sunrises and sunsets we have here and the weather is just a bit warmer than San Diego.  We attended a few events here at the park.  They held "Western Days" and served steaks and potatoes one night.  They also set up a makeshift jail so you could start a warrant against another resident.  I was surprised when a guy with a Sheriffs badge showed up and took me down to sit in the jail for pictures.  That was fun. 

On another night, we had a Mystery Theater Dinner where various residents played parts and walked around and spoke to people and left clues so you could guess whodunit once they announced who the murder victim was. 

On the night of the super blue eclipse moon, I was blissfully unaware and knew I didn't have the equipment to capture it anyway.  The morning before, there was a great sunrise followed later by a equally great sunset.  It might have had something to do with the local farmers burning off fields.  The next morning I saw a crescent moon sitting across the lake and took a pic.  I wasn't thinking about how it was actually the full moon coming out of the eclipse.


"If I had the wings of an angel..."

At the Mystery Theater Dinner. The suspects are lined up.

Sunrise




The entire sky was lit, not just in the east.


Sunset


The next morning. The moon coming out of the eclipse

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

January 31st - A further look at Rio Bend

I walked around to an area I haven't really been to yet.  Our local flock of geese continue to be belligerent. Took a few pictures.  Enjoy.