We were able to convince the park ranger to let us stay a
few days beyond the 10 day limit.
Yay! So our next departure date
is tomorrow, Sunday, Jan 6th.
In the meantime, we continued to enjoy this pretty park in mostly
solitude. The weather has been colder
than we’d have liked. Since we don’t
have hook-ups, that means we’ve been using the furnace quite a bit. But for such a fantastic set-up
nature-wise, we’ll take the trade-off.
And, of course, this spot is made for Cassie. She LOVES chasing the gophers from hole to
hole, stopping to dig when the fancy strikes.
I’m not sure, but we might have to keep this spot in mind for a return
visit. The only rule is that you can
have 10 days continuous maximum.
(Unlike the national forests, which give a 14 day limit and then you
have to move so many miles away for 30 days before you can return). So we can come back whenever so long as we
stay away at least a night.
The last couple of days have been anxiety ridden, which is
par for the course when we’re looking for our next spot. I’ve spent hours researching places on
California’s Central Coast. The trouble
I have is that with the public campgrounds, I can’t get a good account on which
campgrounds we’ll fit into. Usually you
can count on some good advice from forums, but this research project has
resulted in skimpy details. It’s just
hard to make a decision without having a scouting trip. So…finally we decided on a plan. Back when we were at the Orange Grove, we
found a private campground we liked in Morro Bay. It’s pricy compared to boondocking and
national forest campgrounds, but not so pricey compared to other campgrounds on
the ocean. We tried to get a week
there, but they were booked through the first weeks of Jan. So we nixed it. But, today I thought we could call up and
get the next weeks availability…and until then we can leave Kern River
Campground and go to another Kern County Campground about 45 minutes from
here. We’d then come back to KRC and
wait until that opening at Morro Bay.
Phew! It felt so good to
finally have a decision. But when I
called Morro Dunes Campground, they had an opening for Sunday (tomorrow). I was thrown off a bit since I wasn’t
expecting that, but we quickly agreed.
It’s going to suck packing up and moving tomorrow because it’s the one
rainy day in 10 days, but c’est la vie.
Our plan is to get some good scouting in for possible sites. Morro Dunes is nicely placed in the middle of
the coast, so we should have an easy time finding the next spot. It will be nice to make the next decision
from first-hand knowledge and not from the internet.
Abrupt Topic Change Warning!!!!!
There’s something I wanted to get an opinion on before, but
forgot to blog about when we were so rudely uprooted from our Clearing Campsite
by the Sheriff. Missy and I got into
quite a serious fight over this issue, and we need some outside input to know
who is right. I’ll use pseudonyms to
maintain impartiality.
Person A: A well-reasoned, smart, and common sense kind of
gal.
Person B: A bitch.
The fight involved whether or not to move the generator into
the fitty garage when we were taking a trip to town. Person A believed strongly that it should be
moved. We had just been warned by the
Sheriff that there are a lot of generator thefts in the area, and that thieves
would have no problem using bolt-cutters on our lock. Person A figured that with a known criminal
history for the area, it just made sense to take 2 minutes and move the genny
into the garage and out of site.
Person B, on the other hand, thought that it was just as
easy for a thief to use the bolt cutters on the garage lock. She also was channeling the fru-fru writings
of a fellow full time RVer (whose blog we read), who himself felt it was better
to live with hope for the best in humanity than alter behavior to accommodate the
possibility of being a theft victim.
So, please weigh in with your opinion in the comments. I know you’re probably dying to know who’s
person A, and B, but I’ll have to reveal that in a later post.
*Tina: Missy, you come up with a title for once. It’s not fair I always have to do
everything. Titles are hard to come up
with.
Missy: Three AAAs
At the time, she was trying to see what the clip-on light
required for batteries. But since that
was technically her answer to my query, that’s what I went with. :-)
I agree with person B. It is criminally easy to break into your 5th wheel :-). The lock keeps the honest people honest. The best solution would be to leave it in the bed of the pickup.
ReplyDeleteI think you should just keep it with you at all times.
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