We left the Lighthouse Marina this morning and took our shortest and calmest drive in a long while. We were in the car from start to finish for just over an hour and a half and are now at the Thousand Trail park in Nicolaus, about 20 minutes northwest of Sacramento.  We arrived at the park just before 11 and got our spot all picked; it was a good job we got here early as the place is quite full and there were a lot of arrivals after us. We don’t have full hook ups here. Although  they are available we decided to do just water and electric as the full hook up spaces are super small, only about 14 feet wide and really close to each other. This park is right on Lake Minden, and we have to drive ¾’s of the way around it to get to our space which is along the far side of the park. It’s actually quite nice and really quite as there is only a hay field behind us rather than other trailers, and although we can see a highway in the distance there is no traffic noise, just a few airplanes going overhead.
We managed to get into our space without yelling at each other too much today, although Mike did ‘bump’ a tree with the roof of the trailer and will have to go check it out to make sure there’s no damage – at least Zena got away without a scratch today.

Mike: My spotter had a "brain fart".