Today is the first day of our 2016 explorations of neat stuff in the USA. We finished up our trip for 2015 by driving from Yuma, AZ, to the Thousand Trails Pio Pico RV Resort near San Diego, CA, where we did family stuff, maintenance and took some time out for a couple weeks of fooling around in Cabo San Lucas with our kids. It was fun for us but probably stupifiingly boring for blog readers (if any) so I will omit this time period in the blog.
We started out today by picking up our trailer (sometimes referred to as “The Barbarian Invader”) at San Diego RV Center where they serviced the wheel bearings and the brakes. No sooner had we hooked up the Invader when it started to rain quite impressively and it continued as we drove west on I-8 to I-15 north to I-215 north where we turned off at Newport Road to get to the Thousand Trails Wilderness Lakes RV Resort. We couldn’t really see much of the park as we pulled in but we did get to partially set up the trailer before the merely miserable rain morphed into a deluge which quickly filled the park’s roads with about 4″ of water and a big bunch of ducks, coots, geese and swans who seemed to be enjoying the weather.
The park has full hookups but due to the miserable weather I initially did not hook our waste lines to the park’s sewer system. After a few hours of deluge, the weather relented a bit and I went outside to hook us up. Unfortunately, when I opened the cap to the sewer, the flood waters standing in the roads immediately started disappearing down the hole so I closed it up and retreated back into the Invader. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow if the rain quits. We are actually in pretty good shape; we have water, empty waste holding tanks, 30 amps of electrical power and our TV satellite antenna is giving us good reception. We eagerly await the opportunity to check out this part of the world but the weather is going to have to improve some before we will leave the comfort of our travelling home.
For pix of the San Diego area while we were home, click here