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The adventures of a family of novice RV campers in Northern California.
Our Route
FEBRUARY 2010
Our goal was Death Valley. First we took US-101 south from the Bay Area to Pismo State Beach for two nights. Then we headed back up 101 a short way to pick up Highway 46 at Paso Robles. Medium hop down Interstate 5 down to Bakersfield in the Central Valley, and across on 58 towards Tehachapi. One night at the Sierra Trails RV Park in Mojave on Highway 14.
Loop up 14, 395 and 190 into Death Valley to Furnace Creek Visitor Area. We stayed there for four nights, then headed south again on 190, 127 and US-15 to Calico Ghost Town (and a campsite with full hookups!) for one night.
The plan was then to make a big push north on 58 and 99 up to Merced and the McConnell State Recreation Area; and finally a leisurely drive back to the Bay Area. In the event, the weather was bad so we abandoned our night at McConnell and kept going from Merced back into the Bay Area along I-580, I-880 and home.
We drove about 1,135 miles in all.
AUGUST 2009
We followed US-101 north out of the Bay Area, up to Calistoga (to the Bothe-Napa State Park), then further north up 101 to the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
North some more on 101, crossing into Oregon to Ashland, via Medford, to take in "Alls Well That Ends Well" at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and eat restaurant food.
A quick loop up to Crater Lake on highway 62; then a long drive south to Lassen Volcanic National Park on highways 97, 89 and 44; and finally down interstates 5, 505, 80, and 880 home.
Our goal was Death Valley. First we took US-101 south from the Bay Area to Pismo State Beach for two nights. Then we headed back up 101 a short way to pick up Highway 46 at Paso Robles. Medium hop down Interstate 5 down to Bakersfield in the Central Valley, and across on 58 towards Tehachapi. One night at the Sierra Trails RV Park in Mojave on Highway 14.
Loop up 14, 395 and 190 into Death Valley to Furnace Creek Visitor Area. We stayed there for four nights, then headed south again on 190, 127 and US-15 to Calico Ghost Town (and a campsite with full hookups!) for one night.
The plan was then to make a big push north on 58 and 99 up to Merced and the McConnell State Recreation Area; and finally a leisurely drive back to the Bay Area. In the event, the weather was bad so we abandoned our night at McConnell and kept going from Merced back into the Bay Area along I-580, I-880 and home.
We drove about 1,135 miles in all.
AUGUST 2009
We followed US-101 north out of the Bay Area, up to Calistoga (to the Bothe-Napa State Park), then further north up 101 to the Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
North some more on 101, crossing into Oregon to Ashland, via Medford, to take in "Alls Well That Ends Well" at the Ashland Shakespeare Festival and eat restaurant food.
A quick loop up to Crater Lake on highway 62; then a long drive south to Lassen Volcanic National Park on highways 97, 89 and 44; and finally down interstates 5, 505, 80, and 880 home.
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- Lassen Cinder Cone
- Crater Lake to Lassen via Mount Shasta
- Woman the Cave Keeper
- The Final Stretch
- Climbing the Cinder Cone
- Best Discussion So Far
- If You Go Down to The Woods Today...
- Crater Lake
- And the Award for Most Isolated Campground Goes To...
- Down the Tube
- I Didn't Know the Romans Reached Northern California
- Upper Rogue River Valley Gorge
- Passing Mount Shasta
- Photographing Crater Lake
- A Typical Morning on a Driving Day
- Welcome to Crater Lake Camping City
- Highway 62: An Official "Scenic Byway"
- Best Things So Far
- Three Hours in the Old West
- Lunch On Tuesday.
- Success!!!!
- Roadside Attractions
- Time To Dump :-)
- Moving on Day (Again)
- From two days ago - big black bird of prey - some ...
- View from a Beach
- River Swimming
- Smith River
- Cultural Interlude in Ashland
- A Strange Smell
- Nerdy Interlude
- Welcome to Hippy Springs Commune
- I'll Take Some Food With My Pie
- And A River Runs Through It
- Ursine Pleasures
- The Biggest Tree in the Forest
- So Many Trees
- Three Bears at Humboldt
- Views across Humboldt Forest
- Big Roots.
- A Very Tall Tree
- First of the Giants
- After leaving Calistoga, we drove up to Humboldt. ...
- Old Faithful in Calistoga
- Clocking Up The Miles
- In the Land of the Giants
- Children Can Surprise You Sometimes
- Into the Land of Trees
- Heading North
- 24 Hours in Calistoga
- And We're Off!
- Whispering Sweet Nothings
- Itchy and Scratchy
- Dinner's in the Freezer
- Almost Packed and Ready to Go
- The RV has landed!
- Feeling Petrified?
- Dumping Heaven
- And When They Were Up, They Were Up...Except When ...
- Shop, Shop, Shop!
- I Was Too Far Out All My Life, and Not Camping but...
- We Love Lists
- Time To Plan! :-O
- Trying to Engage the Troops
- SICK!!
- Size is Everything
- Differing Priorities
- Co-workers Comments
- State park fees to increase; widespread closures s...
- Wildfire
- Down the Drain
- Little Starlet - Strike One
- 10 days to go
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Useful RV info websites
Other Travel Websites
Our Mobile Library
- Coastal California (Lonely Planet Guides, 2007)
- Day Hikes in Oahu, Robert Stone (Day Hike Books, 2001)
- Frommer's Honolulu, Waikiki & Oahu (11th Ed, 2010)
- Frommer's Oregon (Wiley, 2008)
- The Rough Guide to California (Rough Guides, 2000)
- The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids by Colleen Dunn Bates and Susan LaTempa (Wiley, 2007)
- West Coast RV Camping by Tom Steinstra (Moon Outdoors, 2009)
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