LEAVING AGOURA HILLS

TODAY WE ONLY HAD TO DRIVE 145 MILES, WE HAD RESERVATIONS TO STAY AT CALIENTE SPRINGS IN DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA. WE DIDN'T LEAVE UNTIL AFTER 10:00, WE HAD BEEN WARNED ABOUT THE  TRAFFIC TO LOS ANGELES.

WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO STAYING AT CALIENTE SPRINGS A COUPLE OF DAYS, THEY HAD NATURAL HOT SPRINGS WITH TWO SWIMMING POOLS AND FOUR  HOT TUBS.

ONE LAST LOOK AT THE PUMPKIN LOT.....FROM 101

AND WE WERE ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!

LOTS OF TRAFFIC!

I DON'T KNOW HOW THE FOLKS DEAL WITH THIS TRAFFIC EVERYDAY. IT DIDN'T SEEM TO BOTHER DARRELL, BUT ALL THIS TRAFFIC MADE ME NERVOUS!

THE WHOLE DRIVE WAS PRETTY MUCH LIKE THIS!

AS WE GOT CLOSER TO PALM SPRINGS WE SAW ALL THESE WIND TOWERS.....

ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS AT THE PUMPKIN LOT TOLD US THAT THE SANTA ANNA WINDS WERE WORSE OVER THIS WAY.  THANKFULLY,  THEY  WEREN'T TOO BAD
 TODAY.

WE MADE PRETTY GOOD TIME DESPITE THE TRAFFIC! I FELT LIKE WE HAD TRAVELED ALL DAY THOUGH!!

WE WENT IN AND REGISTERED AND GOT OUR ASSIGNED LOT. IT  WAS A BACK-IN, WE PREFERRED PULL-THRU SITES, BUT NONE WERE AVAILABLE. AS HARD AS DARRELL TRIED, WE WERE TOO BIG TO FIT IN THAT SITE. WE CALLED THE OFFICE AND SHE SAID, WELL, JUST WALK AROUND AND SEE WHICH ONE YOU THINK  YOU  CAN FIT IN.  DARRELL FOUND ONE HE THOUGHT HE COULD GET IN.   IT WAS VERY TIGHT ALSO,  BUT AFTER SOME PRETTY AWESOME DRIVING WE WERE IN AND WE WERE EXHAUSTED!! THIS "EASY DAY" HAD TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE AND WILL GO DOWN AS "THE WORST TRAVEL DAY" SO FAR, SINCE WE LEFT SOUTH DAKOTA.

IT WAS AN OK LOT, BUT WITH THE PALM TREE AND  HAVING TO DRIVE OVER THE CURB, IT WAS VERY HARD! WE HOPED IT WOULD BE WORTH IT, WE WOULD ONLY BE HERE TWO DAYS, AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE DAYS AND IT WAS ABOUT GONE. WE RESTED A LITTLE, HAD A BITE TO EAT AND HEADED OVER TO THE HOT SPRINGS.....OH, YES, IT HAD BEEN WORTH IT!! ...... AHHH............ WE SOAKED AWAY A DAY OF STRESS!!

CALIENTE SPRINGS WAS CLOSER TO DESERT PALM SPRINGS THAN PALM SPRINGS, THE NEXT MORNING WE HEADED TO PALM SPRINGS.

WE  HAD  A GREAT BREAKFAST AT ELMER'S AND OF ALL THINGS.... THERE  WAS    A RAPID CITY CAR IN THE PARKING LOT....JUST CAN'T GET OVER WHAT A SMALL WORLD IT IS!!  FOUND OUR WALMART AND THEY HAD HAZELNUT COFFEE,  I RAN OUT IN AGOURA HILLS AND COULD NOT FIND IT ANYWHERE!!  PALM SPRINGS IS A BEAUTIFUL CITY WITH ALL THESE PALM TREE LINED STREETS.

 WITH   STREETS NAMED AFTER MOVIE STARS.

AND PRESIDENTS.....

AFTER TAKING CARE OF A FEW CHORES, WE WENT BACK FOR MORE
SOAKING!!

BEFORE WE LEFT THE NEXT MORNING, I HAD  PLANNED ON TAKING  MAGGIE AND MARLEE FOR A LONG WALK.

AFTER SEEING THIS SIGN, I DECIDED A SHORT WALK IN THE RV PARK WOULD DO JUST FINE.

DESERT WILDERNESS???? WILD ANIMALS???

WHERE WERE WE????

WE LEFT AT 8:30, WE WERE GETTING GOOD AT GETTING ON THE ROAD EARLY!