So, we’re more than half way through our trip now and there have been no murders – at least not in our RV! We have had some shouting matches, usually over the same old things that we shout about at home, but generally I guess it’s gone pretty smoothly!
Despite the late night last night, we did have to get up at a reasonable time as we have a long drive today – about 630kms / 393 miles. Sarah, in particular, never wants to get up! She thinks that somewhere around 8:15 to 8:30 is criminally early and that she deserves to stay in bed longer than everyone else. Needless to say, because of kids who need rockets attached to them to do anything faster than snail-speed, we never manage to get out early.
We packed up after our night in Joshua Tree, thinking that we may come back for another visit some time in the future as it’s a nice place, and cheap too because there are no hook-ups here, and got on the road.
We were already quite near the northern end of the park, so it wasn’t a long drive to get us out and onto the highways, and then a few miles down the road we came to the town of Twentynine Palms. Müfit seemed quite excited to go here as there’s a song by Robert Plant about the town, so he made sure we listened to it as we drove in!
We saw some reasonably priced gas and decided to stop as we knew we’d need some relatively soon, but, we ran into the age-old Planet America problem in that we don’t have a US zip code that we can enter for the credit card. Usually when you go inside and use your card there, it’s ok, but not at this place. The card just wouldn’t work without a US zip code. So, having already wasted 10 minutes as we had to wait for someone to finish and get out of our way first, we got back on the road. It’s so annoying to have these issues. I mean, here we are, just outside a national park where visitors from all over the world come to visit, and this is literally the first gas station you get to, but you can’t buy gas there unless you have a US zip code – ridiculous Planet America!
After this we just stopped twice as I knew we had a long way to go and I just wanted to get there. My body has got used to driving Al by now, but when I have a longer day I do start to feel it in the shoulders, and by the time we got to tonight’s destination, High Sierra RV Park in Oakhurst, I was definitely ready to get out of the driver’s seat. We booked this place only recently when we finalised our plans for getting to Yosemite. It’s just a short distance outside of the park, and has full hook-up. It’s quite a nice setting, with a river, but as we’re only staying one night we didn’t really mind what it looked like!
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