Quilting, Food, A Week In Our Lives. (CA)

Travel Day: from Newport, Oregon, to Central Point, Oregon, for one night. This campground is one we stayed at for 2 weeks back in 2023. I opened up my journal and read aloud to Kevin the entries from our time here as we passed each place. Brought back some memories we had forgotten. 🙂 Was it a rough ride? Lots of curves! Look at my 3 Sourdough Starters in the fridge! HAHA This is the first time they have tipped over. Thankfully they were fine and didn’t leak.

Travel Day: to Manteca, California. We left at 8:00 a.m. and got there at 3:00 p.m. That included two fuel stops and a rest area. Kevin did great driving, as always. We have been on this route several times. Kevin was very thankful there was hardly any traffic. The day was nice and sunny. Control burn was around Mt Shasta but we could see the top of the mountain this time. Beautiful. The only slow down, which wasn’t bad, the entire way was just about a 1/2 mile long through Sacramento. But otherwise no thick traffic. Nice!

The other day Kevin got a text from Turtle Beach campground about seeing us the next day. He wrote back the correct dates and they fixed it. Then Kevin asked if a  Diet Dr Pepper was wanted, as he was stopping at Circle K (a gas station with fountain drinks). Wrong person! He meant to text me! HA He texted that and the campground person responded funny and yes they would take a Dr Pepper. So today we grabbed a bottle of it and brought it to the campground. Didn’t see the staff though.

We got a knock at the door (footnote 1) and it was one of the staff. Kevin had texted when we got here that the door hangers have the wrong departure date but the paperwork is correct. She brought new hangers. Kevin handed her the Dr Pepper but it wasn’t her who wrote the text. She would put it on her desk and thought it was a very fun story.

I looked up some things for Exploring Cards at Yosemite National Park for when we arrive there next week. I have read Yosemite is very busy and crowded so I am not sure we are going to be able to stop and see everything. I decided to just “go with the flow” and have nothing, zero, nada, planned to see or do.

I made Charcuterie Board with kiwi, green and red grapes, crackers, and Tillamook cheese. The kiwi and grapes were outstanding! So fresh with lots of sweet flavor. I was very happy about the good stuff from here in California. (Picture above is the start of the board, I filled in more after the picture. HA)

I finished up my November yard flag. It is cute with the maple leaves. This is what a started at the quilt retreat last week.

As we were coming back home (footnote 2) from shopping, we saw an ambulance go flying past us. I said, I wonder if it’s going to the campground.  It turned down a different road, but then as we got near the campground, we saw him coming toward us. He stopped us and asked about an address and Kevin told him we’re don’t live here. We drove on and Kevin said it the address was 703 that the guy asked about. (I am deaf so didn’t hear.) I knew that was our campground address. So the ambulance came behind us again and we waved them into the campground and actually gave them the code to get in the gate! Help was needed a few sites from us; I hope they are okay.

That made me think…I have a paper I made up titled RV Emergency. If there is an emergency people don’t think clearly and it would be made even harder with us being in a new place every 1-3 weeks. I fill it out as soon as we get to a new campground and it is by the door. I didn’t think to have the gate code on there so if we called for help EMT/police/etc could get in. This event showed me I need to add that to my paper.

*The blog posts are taken from my daily travel journal. Would you believe – it takes me a 1/2 day every week to whittle down a week’s worth of journal so it won’t be too long for the post each week. HAHA Thank you for reading!

1. “HOWE” is what we named our Alliance Avenue 36-ft 5th wheel. See: Home On WhEels and we pronounce it Howie. We live and travel in it full-time around the country. HOWE has stayed at least one night in all 48 continuous U.S. states.

2. “Home” is where we park it. Home is our 2022 Alliance Avenue, 36 ft, 5th wheel.