After a couple of highly enjoyable weeks celebrating the winter holidays with friends and family, we set out to embark on the next leg of our Full Time in a Chinook journey. Unfortunately, we were visited by the "whatever you were planning just isn't going to happen" Fairy, and after an additional two weeks of vehicle acquisition (Jeep Wrangler for a tow car - Yay!), frustrating repairs (Chinook brakes that took 3 visits to the shop). and installations (new back-up monitor to replace the dead one and tow bar on the Jeep - which also took multiple visits to get done correctly), we finally got on the road yesterday morning. We didn't decide our destination until a few hours down the road, and when we did decide, it certainly wasn't original (for us, anyway). We wanted to return to Coyote Mountain at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Borrego Springs. First night back on the road we ended up in the parking lot of the Shell station with the attached Subway near Harris Ranch (of "no one can consume too much beef, nor too often" fame) at the junction of I-5 and Hwy 138. All went well until a cattle truck pulled up - the smell was horrendous - and we rushed to close all windows and vents. We almost left, but then the cattle truck beat us to it, and we heaved a great sigh of relief and made the sofa into the bed.
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| Here's our teeny Chinook (note new tow car behind!) amidst our fellow overnighters |
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