Eek! A Broken Motorhome Windshield!

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

By the time we pulled out of the Yreka RV Park on Wednesday morning, we noticed the grass was crunchy.  The temperature had dipped to 27 degrees overnight.  The good part was that we knew this would probably be the last we would see of the cold weather for quite some time.  We were certainly happy to get Mt. Ashland behind us but since our over-night stay was still at an elevation of about 3400 feet in the Siskiyou's, we also knew we weren’t off the mountains yet.

Remember my policy of one worry a day?  I did discover sometimes it’s impossible to only have one worry a day. Thus, I’ve decided to amend my original thought on that to one worry at a time. This is why I had to change it.  First I worried about the mountain grades, then I worried about the Sacramento traffic and now I’m worrying about the Tehachapi mountain.  At least I’m keeping the worries in order.  As soon as I toss one worry out, I’ll concentrate on the next one. However, once in a while a little kink gets thrown into that such as the flashing highway sign south of Stockton that warned RVs and autos pulling trailers about the high wind gusts currently in the area. I had to reorganize my worries in a hurry.  Ugh!

The highway between Sacramento and Stockton desperately needs to be repaired. It’s about the roughest freeway we’ve ever been on. I kept checking back through my rear view window to be sure the quad hadn’t bounced right off the trailer. There’s so much highway construction everywhere but they could certainly use it in that area.  I didn't realize I could hold on to a steering wheel so tight.  With the bad roads and all the traffic,  my knuckles were turning white.  My fear was having to change lanes pulling that trailer.  However, I did know that Big Brother was right behind me and if necessary, he'd clear a lane for me.  That certainly did help.

With so many changes to our planned schedule on the first day of our travel south, we thought we had to start over again to plan the rest of it. We didn’t though. We just skipped the day in the middle and instead of stopping on night #3 in the Los Banos / Santa Nella area, we planned it to stop there on night #2. What we hadn’t decided was whether it would be the big lot at the TA Plaza or at the Santa Nella RV Park.  By the time we filled up with fuel at the TA there, we had already made up our mind it was going to be the RV park with full hookups. Our routine normally is not stopping at full hookup parks but Wal-marts and truck stops.  I think we’re getting spoiled.

<----- I really wanted to do the Orange Grove RV Park in Bakersfield but I’m guessing we’ll travel on by it.  Who knows.

We have about 460 miles left to arrive at the Needles Elks.  We  plan to stay there a couple nights giving us a chance to check out another RV park and Laughlin.  At this moment in time we think we’ll probably divide those miles into two days.  We could get the worry of Tehachapi behind us (really just behind me)  or we could travel about 170 miles on Thursday staying at the Orange Grove RV Park in Bakersfield before going on into Needles Friday.  We could do several things.  I just hope it's an uneventful travel day.   Actually, even I’m wondering what we’ll do.  Stop back and find out.  We're going to be stopping back to find out what we did too.

One thing we do know is that we’d like to travel through Phoenix on Sunday.  Sundays are usually good days to travel through large cities.  At least we don’t get stuck in work traffic.  Besides thanks to the California highway system we now have a motorhome windshield to replace ($$$$).  The sooner we get there, the sooner we can have it taken care of.