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Homestead Suites, Foster City, California. Odometer – 10097 miles

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The first part of our adventure came to an end today. We returned our RV after 3 and a half months, and drove back to our “home” base in Foster City. A twitch of nostalgia for Paola and me, perhaps for Ron as well. (more…)

Anthony Chabot Regional Park Campground, Oakland, California. Odometer – 10089 miles!

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It’s hard to believe that 3 and a half months have passed by so fast. Tonight is our last night in the RV and we are very close to our starting point, in a quiet secluded nature sanctuary just 5 miles from central Oakland. (more…)

KOA Campground, West Sacramento, California. Odometer – 9930

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Today we took even more time to get organized than yesterday. By the time we got into the cars it was past noon. We drove for about an hour into Redding where we went to visit Turtle Bay Exploration Park. It is a mix of discovery museum, playground, bird and butterfly zoo, and possibly other things that we did not get to see.

The weather outside was unwelcomingly hot, over 35C, so we headed to the air conditioned museum first. (more…)

Placerville KOA, Shingle Springs, CA. Tachometer – 395 miles

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It was a cold night but our heater did a good job and none of us froze. Ron had to pee in the middle of the night but other than that it was quiet. No bears came around either. We got up to a nice and sunny day.

After getting ourselves together we set off for a hike to Mirror Lake. The great part was that the hike starts from our campground. It is an easy 2.5 mile back and forth along a paved road, so we took the double stroller with us. Ten minutes into the trail we spotted a group of deer (“bambis” in kiddie language) and of course everyone was ecstatic. The trail is beautiful. We walked along Tenaya creek, upstream, surrounded by tall pine trees and an occasional redwood. There was a fresh, just rained here, smell to the forest. Mirror lake is seasonal, which means it will dry up soon. When we got there, the kids had fun running around trying to chase birds, climbing on rocks and trees and trying to get to the water before we catch them.

On the way back Shir and Orr fell asleep in the stroller. When we got back to the RV, it was warming up so I stayed outside with them while Paola prepared a tasty lunch for us. We had lunch on the picnic table at the campground for the first time. So much easier for cleanup than inside the RV!

Later we debated staying another night at Yosemite or pushing on to our next destinations. Since some of the park is still closed due to winter conditions, we felt it would be wiser to get ahead with our long drive. On the way out of the park, we did drive to Hetch Hetchy though, but were turned back by the ranger because ourRV is over the 8 feet maximum width limit. We spent most of the late afternoon driving along route 49 at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. We are now camping not too far from Sacramento. Our plan is to cross Nevada as fast as possible to get to Utah’s canyon parks. There is one park in Nevada that we hope to see along the way, but we have another 500 miles to go before we get there.

Going to bed now, a lot of driving tomorrow…

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PS – pictures will come soon, once we have a fast Internet connection