We've been traveling since early April and finally have found a great place to just sit back and do a bit of relaxing. And does that ever feel good!!!!
Yes, we've done things like the wash, some cleaning, some shopping, but mostly some resting and just doing what we want to do when we want to do it. Ken borrowed a book from the library here at the campground and read all of it. I've played a variety of games with Bette.
Ken once again tackled our braking problem. The brake cable from the motorhome to the car broke and he tried to fix it a week or so ago but it broke again. So on Tuesday we drove into Oakhurst to a bike shop to get a new cable for yet another attempt at fixing it. It really is important to have with all of this mountain driving. Here in the campground we are at 2200 feet but our next campground is at 7000 feet! Where there are ups, there are also downs sometimes rather steep so yes, the brake does need to be fixed. It is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the way into Oakhurst, the largest nearby town, is this sign which we have passed each time we've driven into Yosemite. This time I managed to get a picture of it. It truly describes just how dry everything is in this area.
This campground has a separate hose attached to every site's water source so that if fire should come something is ready for helping to put it out.
This "gold miner" sits on the edge of the road at the borderline of Coarsegold - truly a symbol of its beginnings as many gold miners were in this area searching back at the time of the 1840s gold rush in California. Our guide on Wednesday told us one of the residents of this campground found a nugget of gold in the creek bed on the "back 40".
Bette and I had a great time playing Tri-Ominios on Tuesday afternoon while Frank kept telling us little tidbits of info from checking news reports on his phone. One of note: the last bit of snow from last winters record snows disappeared Tuesday!!!!!! The pile of snow had been 95 feet high!
Wednesday morning one of the park tour guides came to our place and took us on a full hour plus tour of the Park of the Sierras Escapee Park. (Frank and Bette when on the same tour with another guide) Our guide Ron shared the history of the park that was totally built by RVers - all volunteers who had put in their own money to help buy the land and then create the park with nice level sites in very hilly countryside. They started in the late 80s and finished in 1991. Many things have been added and improved over the years but it continues to have the same 254 sites that are "purchased" upon coming in with the original "purchase price" returned when you leave. A few of the original workers are still here. The place only has four paid staff - everything else is done by volunteers including much of the maintenance. This work shop
A couple of the women took on the job of painting them! Right now they are in the midst of doing an annual cleaning the insides of a couple of the tanks.
This stage coach with its mock air conditioner on the top to look like an RV is the symbol for the park. It was found by a couple of the residents, fixed up and now stands near the entrance to the park.
It can be seen again in this huge stained glass window made by one of the residents for the clubhouse
The cute sense of humor of the group can be seen in several of the "decorations" around the park but especially in this Duke of Burl that sits on the front porch of the clubhouse
The clubhouse is a huge building with a very large laundry room on one end plus restrooms and showers, a recycling area, a gigantic kitchen with lots of the latest in equipment, a stage, mailroom and boxes, quilting and crafting room, library, pool room, office, and meeting area with an upper open loft with exercise equipment. Full length decks run across the back of both floors.
A creek runs through the back of the campground (it is dry right now) and then on the other side of that is 40 acres of land treated as just a buffer from any neighbors.
They playfully call it Mexico and have little Mexican bandito cutouts hiding behind rocks and trees.
Everyone is extremely friendly and super proud of "their" park. I wish it was closer to our kids cause I'd move there in a minute!
Late Wednesday afternoon our Florida friends, Bob and Glenda Christian, who did the Lewis and Clark Caravan with us arrived in the area. They are staying in an RV park in Oakhurst. Once they were settled, we met them at the Sweetwater Steakhouse in Oakhurst for dinner and a couple of hours of sharing what we'd all been doing (they traveled down the coast of Oregon and then California to San Francisco before coming to the Yosemite area)
When we all gathered in St. Charles, MO to start the L & C Caravan, we had a picture taken of the six of us and here we are again back together around the table
After we returned, Bette and I played another couple of games of Tri-Ominos before calling it a night.
Tomorrow we are back on the road heading north east to Truckee, California
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