\tSince we are on what we consider as\nthe fast track through California, we like to lay low for a day or\ntwo between travel days to recuperate. Yesterday we were on the road\nfor more than 5 hours, a long time for us elderly types to be doing\ncombat with young drivers recklessly operating faster vehicles,\nwild-eyed careeners, thoughtless lane changers, urgent quests to find\nrestrooms and cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAnd after last night’s bass and thump\nserenade lasting well past dark, we spotted what we thought were the\nnoisy types leaving this morning and taking their obnoxious music\nwith them. Unfortunately, a park employee arrived this morning with a\ntractor equipped with a Gannon drag-behind tool well known on\nconstruction sites as an ample noisemaker. The employee dragged this\nappliance around for quite a while, making sure nobody wanted to\nremain in what was previously a very quiet park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSo today we tried to avoid the\nobnoxious racket and did a bit of driving, over to the town of\nWoodlake where we filled up Charlotte’s ample fuel tank with $91\nworth of diesel. We believe that is the most we have ever been\nrequired to pay since 2014, when we started this adventure.\nCalifornia’s fuel prices are truly frightening. Less than 14 days ago\nwe were getting diesel for less than $3 in rural Oregon while here in\nthe Golden State we have found only very few places with fuel costs\nless than $4\/gallon and that’s for biodiesel, which is not\nrecommended by Ford in their diesel engines. In Woodlake we turned up\nCA-245 (the northern \u00be being possibly the most serpentine road in\nAmerica) for a ways before returning to Woodlake where we rewarded\nourselves with some drive-in ice cream. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s about it. We went back to our trailer and turned on the air conditioning and poured out some cocktails. The irritant with the Gannon had quit by the time we returned but it was difficult to discern if he did any good. The place looks exactly the same as when we arrived yesterday although it is much quieter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We took some pix of the Lemon Cove area highlights. Click the link. https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/bSVWzfqiPSxe3mhq6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since we are on what we consider as the fast track through California, we like to lay low for a day or two between travel days to recuperate. Yesterday we were on the road for more than 5 hours, a … Continue reading