Traveling today, on a Sunday for the first time on a long while. Since we had no sewer hook up at Ponderosa we had to stop at the dump station this morning on the way out, so we got hooked up and headed towards the exit. The lay out of this park is really stupid as the dump station and air is at the exit and so while we were using it nobody else could leave the park. Thankfully there was no one using it or waiting and so we got down to business; while I cleaned Mike put air in the trailer tires. Another trailer pulled up just after we started but we were quick so he didn’t have long to wait. Then we headed out back the way we came almost two weeks ago. Just after we got on highway 50 a car drew along side us and was waving at us so we pulled over and checked out the trailer. At first we couldn’t see anything wrong, all the tires we good, tv antenna was down, then Mike noticed our bumper end was missing along with our sewer hose. Fortunately it must have just fallen out and after a short jog along the side of the highway I recovered our pipe.
Back on the road, we passed back by Sacramento, but instead of going north we kept on east until we hit the I505, and then went north for a few miles before heading east again through Winters and towards Lake Berryessa. The last 10 miles or so we along a windy road but it was fine, and before we knew it we’d arrived at the park.
This park, Canyon Creek, is set along both sides of highway 128, and when you first pull up to it it looks quite small but it is actually spread out along the river. We parked and Mike went across the road to check in. They do something a little different here than we’ve come across in any other park, they have a person on a golf cart that takes you around to show you the available spaces so you don’t have to pull the trailer all over the place to find a spot. She was very nice and directed us to the ones she thought would work best for us. We decided to be on the side of the road opposite to the river for a few reasons, mostly because that’s where the full hook-ups and the wifi are, but also because all the weekend people park along the river and almost all of them seem to have fifty kids.
It didn’t take us too long to get settled in to our space, which was a good thing, as it’s absolutely boiling here; the temperature is close to 95 degrees. I’m actually glad for only double digit heat, the lady who showed us around told us that yesterday it was 111 degrees here. If it stays this hot I think there might be a good chance of us actually using a swimming pool at a campground for the first time in two years.
The park seems to be quite nice, it’s lovely and green with lots of trees, and although we are close to the road it’s not too noisy. It’s in a canyon though, so we are surrounded by mountains, which means no phone service and even our Verizon mi-fi doesn’t work. There is internet at the lodge but it’s an ethernet hook-up so only one person at a time can use it and they don’t open the lodge till 9 o’clock in the morning; Mike’s been up for half his day by that time! I think we’ll be running into Winters on a regular basis for the next ten days.

Mike: No internet, no phone, it sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!