Little Move
We only drove 65 miles but you would have thought it was a major adventure. Well since most of those miles were on Interstate 10 through LA County, it could be an adventure. But traffic was light and the drive was hassle free. We traveled over the lunch hour.
We'd been parked in Hemet for 2 months so there were lots of tasks to accomplish. Since it was a short drive I took the opportunity to clean a few corners and windows as they got free of stuff...more books, more movies, more appliances...where to put it all? Generally, Jim does the outside, I do the inside. But now we have to put the TV and the computer monitor "to bed" and that is his task. Packing up took us an hour the night before and two hours in the morning. But we got a lot done and it's so clean inside.
We did allow time to be sure everything was going to work. I get the "nervous nellies" when we are headed out just worrying about all the things that could go wrong. What a waste of time! But if the slide wouldn't go in, the satellite dish wouldn't come down, the engine would not start...we'd be stuck. All of those have happened to us but they were minor problems, solved in minutes, with lessons learned :).
Once on the road, my stomach settles down and I can enjoy the IMax view again. There's not much to see between Hemet and San Dimas, CA but once at East Shore RV Park we have a beautiful view of the San Bernardino mountains and Puddingstone Reservoir. It's pricey! $256 for a week. At Hemet we were paying monthly $585 plus electric...maybe $700 for the month.
But after our little move we are closer to the family and to our doctor and dentist for checkups. So maybe it's worth it in gas money.