Due to crummy scheduling on my part, we are still in Menifee. It is over 100 degrees here. We tried to keep the trailer as airtight as possible and to stay inside where it is air conditioned. We apparently were a bit late on our departure from the southland because since we left San Diego, it has only gotten hotter and the purpose of going north was to avoid the stifling hot temperatures by heading into the northern half of the U.S.
We jumped on the internet and started scoping out our next destinations. We managed to make some campground reservations for the next week or two and to map out our route up the western side of the Sierra Nevada Range toward Mount Shasta and Cascade Siskiyou National Monument on the Oregon border. We cannot dawdle – it is just too damn hot to stay in California.