And Back Home Again

We left our friend's house after having a lovely breakfast of Baked Cinnamon French Toast and a last round of video games in the morning.

The drive back to Tahoe was mostly uneventful, if very hot >102F most of the way, apparently >110F in Sacramento. 

The main excitement was that the propane tank emergency pressure valve blew somewhere in Sacramento. We think the temperature in the propane compartment may have exceeded 130 degrees based on some temperature readings that we had seen at lower outside temperatures (road heat, plus tyre heat).

We got home about 8.30 - just about the 6.5 hours we guessed it would take.

A quick emptying of all the food out of the RV and then bed. Sunday we would have to empty most of the RV because on Monday at 10AM, its off to the shop with a long list of repairs.

This will be another pause in our adventures....

Marina Beach Day 2

 We had another wonderful day on the Beach.

we found a teeter totter...

 and other people were doing exciting things!

Marina Beach

We stayed at the Marina Beach RV Park. 

This was plan B as our friend's RV had not arrived as promised, so rather than staying inland where it was too hot to camp, we went to the beach.

We made smores, had a wonderful dinner, nice afternoon on the beach.

We set up the gamer's tent net to the RV for the boys.  The boys had a great time

The long and winding road - Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park

 We left the cousins around noon and took a very long and winding road to get to Kings Canyon. It dropped quite a distance, with some up and down. We saw evidence of the fire that had evacuated our relatives and an abandoned high school.

Arrived at the park n the afternoon and finally discovered why it is Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. They share at least one entrance. Not unlike Petrified Forest and Painted Desert.

As planned we drove down to the designated parking lot for the shuttle and took the shuttle around the park. 

The super impressive entrance sign.

If we thought the road to the park was long and winding, it had nothing on the road in the park.

That very narrow road caused problems as there were poles for the snow right off the edge of the white line, and while most of the poles were three feet high, one of them was six feet high and hit our rearview mirror. Which then wacked into the passenger window and scared Paul (as well as shattering). Fortunately, it did not break the passenger window.

Giant Trees everywhere,

Forest.

After driving a while, we left Kings Canyon and entered Sequoia NP.

And there were even bigger trees.  We saw General Sherman - the biggest tree. and hiked around the loop and saw lots of other big trees.

Then, having timed it just so we had seen everything just as the last shuttle left, we returned to the RV and drove out of the park the way we came, and headed off to the RV Park.

On the Road Again

 After enjoying visiting friends on the 4th, we set off on our summer vacation RV trip. 

Goals: visit the cousins, visit Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, help our friends get acquainted with their new RV. 

A week before we left we discovered that a) our friends RV was delayed so would not be available, b) it was going to be 102+F at the campground, and c) we could get a couple of nights at the Marina Beach RV park near Monterey where it was going to be almost 70F.  So plans change....

We were late getting on the road, as usual, and arrived at the cousins at 10.30 PM, far later than planned, but we had a couple of hours visiting with them anyway.