Wednesday, October 22, Day 49 - another beautiful day in California! Are you tired of hearing me say that, yet? OK, today we left Oakhurst, destination Barstow, CA, in the Mojave Desert. As the picture above shows, we had to travel through mountains, again. This will be the first test of the motor home since we had it serviced on Monday. Guess what? We made it through the mountains without a hitch. The motor home didn't even come close to overheating today, even though the temperatures were in the upper 80's. We were also able to maintain enough speed going up, that we were able to pass some slower trucks! Before the service was performed, the same S-L-O-W trucks were passing us like we were standing still.We are currently in a rest area on I-15, about 20 miles west of Baker, CA. Tomorrow morning, we will leave California after spending 23 days here! I think 22 of the days were warm and sunny. We only had rain on October 2, driving from Klamath to Santa Rosa - by the time we got to Eureka, the rain had given way to sunny skies. So, unless it rains tomorrow (which it will not) we only had about 1/2 day of rain in 23 days!
Check the blog again tomorrow. I'm not sure what we'll have for you, but it will probably be something interesting, again. NOTE TO COB: it was the hydraulic fluid - I added about 1/2 quart and the alarm has stopped.
Here's the link to today's web album:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/TheTripDay49TravelingTowardUtah?authkey=F4QaOKMYvTs#
2 comments:
Photos look like you went right past the town of Tehachapi where a major rail line runs. The train tunnels are interesting to watch in this area since the track makes a full circle to gain altitude needed to make it over the pass. The train looks like it loops over itself. Pretty neat town too.
Sandy
We did go right past Tehachapi, but we didn't know about the trains. We did see many tunnels through the mountains, though.
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