Week ending Mar 19, 2015 Mojave, Fresno

We discovered another off road vehicle area with free camping. So off we went to explore Jawbone Canyon OHV. At the end of the paved road in the off road area we parked and walked further up the gravel road.  After a few miles, the road took a few switchbacks to the top of a hill. What wonderful views from the top. The rocks show obvious signs of the fault line, some mountains are green, some red, some black and a few white. Very interesting. We could see down into the valley and Koehn Dry Lake.

Saturday was desert tortoise day. There is a desert tortoise interpretive center a few miles NE of California city. They have four interpretive loops with guide brochures, 3 which we did, and a longer loop with no guide. After a walk of almost 5 miles through the desert area, no turtles to be found, we saw 3 different types of lizards.

Tortoise Burrow

Leopard Lizard

Horned Lizard

Zebra Tail Lizard

Horned Lizard

Luckily we did not see any snakes. After having lunch at the center, and picking up a top with a turtle on it, we decided it was a perfect day for ice cream. We headed for Johannesburg and stopped at the gas station, grocery store, post office (a three for one business) picked up an ice cream sandwich and then drove through Randsburg, an old mining town, on our way back to the trailer. We watched  Jennifer's curling game against Scotland Saturday night.|

Sunday although cloudy, was back in the mid 80's. We spend the day visiting with our neighbours and watching the Nascar race from Phoenix. It seems hard to believe that it was 15 years since we attended the Nascar race in Phoenix. We spent some time surfing the net looking for RV parks and making plans for our trip back to Canada.

Monday was a day to do nothing. We walked around the little town the RV park is in, and made preparations for our further travels.

Tuesday was moving day. We arrived in Fresno at Blackstone North RV park. This park has really nice wide sites, easy to back into. After getting set up we watched curling and had an early night.

Wednesday morning Joan woke up early 3:30 A.M. to watch world women's curling. Joan went for a haircut. We then stopped at Von's for groceries. After unpacking groceries etc. we walked up to a local shopping area to Famous Dave's BBQ for lunch.  Not quite local Texas BBQ, but pretty good.  On our way back through the trailer park we visited with some people from B.C. as well as our next door neighbours, who are permanent residents of the park.

Thursday morning was moving day. Twice in one week, whats up with that????  We arrived at Midway RV Park on the north side of Vacaville shortly after 1:00 P.M. The first thing we saw as we parked in the check-in area was a wild turkey, a bird we have only seen in the northern areas of the States as well as Canada.

Turkey

The RV host showed us a couple of sites, our choice, depending on where we could get a satellite signal.   We chose a site, checked our t-Mobile hotspot, it worked great, good phone service and satellite aligned. A perfect rv park according to our criteria. Our plan is to visit Napa Valley from this area.