Today we left Wilderness Lakes Thousand Trails and headed south into San Diego County. We have now finished our grand tour ’18 in which we passed through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas (where we had a nasty tire and trailer damage issue due to a tire tread separation), Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah (with another destructive tire tread separation and more trailer damage), Nevada and back into California – a bit over 20,000 miles.
I’m old and we will probably stay in southern California for a while because I have to sign up for Medicare, go to a doctor and a dentist, we need to fix the trailer damage from the tread separations, we can visit our kids and hobnob with old friends. Unfortunately, due to some restrictions on our lengths of stays in Thousand Trails RV parks, we will be moving around large expanses of southern CA to stay in compliance with the stay regulations. The weather today when we arrived was great – about 78 degrees and less than 50% humidity – and a long stay in this part of the world doesn’t sound too bad. We know we will never again make the mistakes of being in the south during summer, being in the desert southwest in the early autumn or being in Mississippi in the spring. We had more than our share of torrential rainstorms, tornado warnings, spectacular lightning, sky-cracking thunder, oppresive, humidity-infused environments and broiling deserts on this year’s trip so we have vowed to plan better in the future.
This blog will become somewhat intermittent for the next few months since I am positive nobody wants to read about colonoscopy, crown reattachment, trailer maintenance or a visit to the Ford dealership. If anything interesting happens, however, I’ll try to write a compelling story with my old guy’s not necessary truthful but possibly entertaining point of view. Thank you very much.
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