Had a great trip though. We had rain here the night before we left so when we got over the mountains into California there had been run-off. There was dried mud across the road many places and in one place we found several inches (say 15 cm, I didn't measure it!) of water flowing across the road. We left about 09:00 on Sunday and got there by 15:30 or so. The only bad part of the drive was around Riverside, CA where I-215 is being worked on; has been for the two years we've been using it to visit San Diego anyway!
We spent our week doing tourist stuff like Old Town and Balboa Park. The trip was mostly to see our son & his 'girlfriend' of 16 years. So far they have resisted marriage & I wish them success. I know I was worried when my wife and I decided to stop 'living in sin' and make it legal. Guess it worked out since it's been 27 years now. You never know how people are going to react though so I can see not screwing with a good thing. We ate together a lot & talked quite a bit. Had good food and some that wasn't quite so good. Happily it was all good when we ate at their house and when he ate at ours (she is a nurse and was working some weird shift).
Photos? Nope. Except for the flowers around the dog run at the RV park! Here's one from my cell phone:
Came back on Sunday. It was my wife's idea to do all our traveling on Sundays and I must say it worked out well. We had what I would call moderate traffic all the way. We decided to stay on I-15 going north rather than take the I-215 and that was pretty successful too; not being torn-up is much easier on the nerves and it's only about 10 miles (16 km) farther. Even at $4.15/gallon ($1.06/l.) and using 1 gallon every 10 miles (23 l. per 100 km ), it's a no-brainer. Traffic towards Vegas wasn't bad but there was quite a lot of it. Traffic from Vegas back to California was nasty. There is an Agricultural Check point on I-15 in California; they had a miles long backup at 13:00!! When we went through the previous week at about 11:30 it was nowhere near that bad. No idea if that is always the way it is or not but I did see a few vehicles on a road going parallel to the Interstate. Guess if I was in a hurry I might consider getting off the Southbound highway at exit 206 and try out the other road. No idea where I'd get back on but it would at least be fun!
We get off I-15 at Baker, CA and drive up to Shoshone, CA then cut over to Pahrump. On the road between Baker and Shoshone (55 miles or 88 km) I counted oncoming vehicles: 3 semi-trucks; 3 work trucks, 20 private vehicles (including motorcycles). We were passed by 7 private vehicles. My kind of traffic!
Got used to eating three times a day in San Diego; I'm hungry. Have a good one!
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You left Vegas on a Sunday? With all the tourists going home? Wow, punishment.
Coming back Sunday is OK, looking at the rows of stopped traffic over on the southbound side.
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