It's 12pm November 11th and a beautiful day here in Newberry Springs California. I can almost hear some of you asking "where the hell is Newberry Springs?". Well, we're about 20 miles east of Barstow on historic Route 66, just a mile or so from the famous Bagdad Cafe. Famous only because of a movie about it by the same name. As the title of this edition tells you, we've come about 1000 miles since my last edition. We left Silverton Oregon on November 5th after we finally got our washer/dryer repaired. Unfortunately our repairman discovered that although the camper was sold to us as washer/dryer ready it's not. Seems that the water lines and drain pipe that are in the utility closet aren't connected to anything, and now I hear most of you saying "WTF?". All will be fixed by a dealer at no cost as soon as we get somewhere for a while. Anyway, we stayed that evening in Grants Pass Oregon in a small RV park and headed south the next day. On the way to our next stop we passed beautiful Mt Shasta.
I needed to get some prescriptions filled so we stayed the next 3 nights in Corning California, the Olive City. Wonder was beside himself with anticipation. Corning is a small town with several olive groves, olive oil manufacturers and olive museums.
From Corning we headed south still and landed in Tulare California. It wasn't our first choice, or even our second, but for a one nighter it served its purpose. That brings us to where we are today, Newberry Mountain RV Park. A small but nice park just outside of Barstow in the middle of the Mojave desert.
We're going to do some exploring today. There's the Calico ghost town not too far away that looks interesting, and we might even stop and eat at the Bagdad Cafe afterwards!
So until next time...
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