Tuesday, May 10, 2011

May 8 - Finally On The Road

We finally launched the new chapter of our life on Sunday, May 8, 2011.  We made a quick stop to have lunch with the JP family in Temecula, have Oscar's breadsticks for one last time and say goodbye.  We spent our first night in Newberry Springs, CA which is halfway between Calico the ghost town and BFE (if you have to ask...you don't want to know).  It was extremely windy with winds of 40 mph gusting to 60!  The road from the 15 freeway to the Twin Lakes RV Park (if you can call it that) was drifted by the sand from the Mojave riverbed (the river was obviously dry as a bone).  Thank goodness another couple arrived at the park at the same time otherwise we may have thought two or three times about staying there.  The only other trailers in the park had the curtains billowing in and out of the broken out windows (can you say horror flick?).  Janet's not overly fond of staying in campgrounds next to prisons or being the only humans for 30 miles (too many late night movies), but Will and Carol in the other RV had been here 3 other times and they assured us all was well.  So we settled in and hunkered down against the wind.  Sorry no pics, I was afraid of getting sand in my camera or getting blown away :).

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