Friday night and we're here!

We have arrived in the Palm Springs area!! What an ordeal to get here!! We left Freemont on Wednesday after getting the 3.70 Final Drive installed in our coach. We also had some other work done and were ready to go by mid-day. We traveled about 12 miles north to Pleasanton, Ca where my cousin, John, lives and we checked into the Alameda County fairgrounds RV Park for the night. Unfortunately, John & Caroline were in Texas so we didn’t see them this time. We headed west to hook up with the I-5 south to LA and Palm Springs. Right away we noticed a difference with the engine…lots more power on the hills. We came to the notorious Grapevine section of the highway and got stuck behind a bunch of trucks at the beginning of the climb. Alan pulled out into the next lane and breezed right by all the trucks! We decided that our money on the final drive was well spent!! We have lots of power to spare now!

At about 4:00pm, when we reached the junction of the I-5 and the 210 at LA, we missed our turn on to the 210 and we promptly got lost in the canyons of the Hollywood area for about an hour! This put us right into rush hour big-time!! We found our way back but it was very scary trying to maneuvering through six lanes of traffic in an ancient motorhome across the top of LA on a Thursday drive home. Everyone knew where they were going but us! We finally found an exit at Redlands and took it. We parked for the night at an industrial park with nice safe surroundings. Today, after a stop at Starbucks for breakfast, we carried on the 50 miles to PS, our destination. We are now safely ensconced in our spot at the Cathedral Palms RV Park in Cathedral City, CA where we hope to be for one month. It is so good to have arrived 14 days after leaving Edmonton on November 28th. More to follow!!!!