Woke up early, and started loading all our gear into Eco. Steve had to run some bins back to the house, so Anja took a few minutes and attended to the most important part of the day. She taught Sasha how to go up and down the stairs into the RV, and got her to jump up onto the bed. Pretty good for 2 tries!
We hit the road at 9 am, and then hit the usual LA traffic. That slowed us down quite a bit, but we got through it and over the Grapevine by noon or so. The Central Valley was nowhere as hot as we were worried it would be, maxing out at about 84 degrees. We decided to take a chance and see how the truck did with some low AC on. It did fine, and we rode in comfort the rest of the way.
Around Avenal we stopped for gas, and Anja spotted a guy selling fruit from his truck. She bought 5 lbs of organically grown grapes, 6 nectarines (all of which are delicious), all for $5. But Anja gave him $6, hoping the extra dollar could go to his fund to get his 2 front teeth replaced. Ah, the Central Valley.
Sasha did really well at the rest stops along the way, seemingly a bit overwhelmed with all the new sights and sounds. She had her first run-in with a huge dragonfly at a rest stop, which was fun to watch. She mostly slept in the back seat though. Her new safety harness made us feel much better about driving with her.
We finally pulled into the RV park near Los Banos about 4 pm, wondering why they named a whole town "The Bathroom". We were a little worried that it would be the pits, but the park is actually pretty nice, and we enjoyed a pleasant evening relaxing outside.
Partway through the evening Anja discovered that the fridge wasn't getting cold, so we tested a few things and found out that Steve forgot to flip the circuit breakers to the electrical hookup. We definitely need a checklist for all this stuff. After that, everything was working fine and Steve had to apologize for getting so steamed about nothing working for awhile. Par for the course on that one.
The bugs started to get a bit much about 7 or so, so we decided to head in and relax, download and watch the latest episode of Project Runway, and get some rest for the drive to Russian River the next day. Here's a few photos from The Bathroom.
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