The First Day of the adventure

Here it is, the start of our adventure.  After several hard weeks and months of getting the house ready for sale, the sale, the move and finally the transition into Greycie, the day has arrived.  
We lived at Lake Casitas for the last few days, from Memorial Day till today.  We left SoCal around 8:30 am and arrived at our first stop, Kit Fox RV Park in Patterson, CA.  It is a place to park.  But it is clean, has full hook-ups and is pretty quiet. Joining Passport America helped with the cost. Saved about $25.
The truck took Greycie up the Grapevine with no problem.  Easily staying up with truck traffic and still having enough power to pass safely when necessary. The hounds did very well.  We stopped only once during the 315 mile drive for potty and diesel. Even the countess, who was extremely sick the past 3 days, did great.  She is starting to feel good again.
Tonight we had a nice dinner, walked the hounds around the park and are now settled in for a relaxed evening.  
All is well.

Quartzite last weekend!

The Countess took Thursday and Friday off so we could meet up with our friends, D&M, at Quartzite this last weekend.  We packed up Greycie (no hounds this trip) and pulled out around 10:00 am on Thursday.  Drove through the wonderful traffic of Southern California, with the most courteous drivers on earth, to get out into the desert area of Indio to get gas.  Currently the diesel is around $3.79/g.  Thanks Moonbeam!  We made it to the Desert Gold RV Park in Brenda, AZ

around 3:30.  That's about 350 miles in 6-1/2 hours.  Lost an hour leaving CA.  Met up with D&M and enjoyed a laughter filled evening with drink and a lot of fun. 

On Friday we all went into Quartzite and visited the Big Tent and surrounding areas and vendors.  There really wasn't much to interest us this time. The prices weren't any better than Amazon so we didn't get anything. The evening was good food (spaghetti), drink and a game of Farkle.
Saturday was a day I needed to work on Greycie.  We visited La Mesa RV in the morning to check out the new Vilanos and then back to the park to work.  I installed the new shower head, fixed a loose cabinet door, installed the new door lock, installed the back up camera, and put the decals on the back. 

Now Greycie is official. All in all it was a very productive day.  The evening was filled with a great dinner, (grilled steak and baked potatoes) and an exciting game of Hand and Foot. It was a good day to get a lot of the honey dos done.

Sunday was our travel day back to Oxnard.  We broke camp around 11:00 and headed into the Sunday evening traffic on SoCal.  Got Greycie back into her spot in Camarillo around 5:00 pm.  That was a 7 hour drive since we gained an hour when we entered CA. Got back to the brick and stick to meet with 3 very excited hounds.  But all was in order and pleasantly there were no surprises.  

The Countess is back at work for another 120 days and us retired are resting on the couches.  It was a good weekend.

Trip stats: Miles driven 700, mpg 11.2, Avg mph 53.  Total miles on Greycie 2574.