Travel from Desert Hot Springs to Orange, CA

We departed Catalina Spa and RV Resort in Desert Hot Springs, California, and headed to a couple of weeks at Orangeland RV Park in Orange, California — conveniently located about 10 minutes from Disneyland. Yep, we spent five days at the Disneyland and Disney California Adventure parks! You can bet there will be posts about those coming up soon.

Here’s the route map (right to left); 100 miles, about three hours drive in our coach. A non-stop drive, since California apparently doesn’t believe in rest areas (or road maintenance):

Map route

Paladin started on top of the kitchen counter; he complained a few times, but was quiet for most of the journey:

Paladin

As always, Jenn drove our coach. She prefers to drive, and doesn’t enjoy being a passenger, and I feel the opposite, so that works out best for both of us:

Jenn driving

It’s much more common for men to drive RVs than women, so people are sometimes surprised when they learn she is the driver. She’s a member of a Tiffin Lady Drivers Facebook group (with 824 members), for female drivers of Tiffin motorhomes.

The onramp to the I-10 freeway, with a snow-tipped mountain and wind turbines in the background:

Mountain, wind turbines, freeway

Paladin used his top-entry litter box while in transit:

Paladin

One area attraction we didn’t get to, but will in the future, are some big dinosaurs:

Dinosaurs

I have a phone holder to help me keep an eye on one of the RV-safe GPS apps; I have it mounted via a suction cup to a plate on the pull-out desk for the passenger chair (on which rests one of Paladin’s cardboard nests):

Phone holder

The shortest route, via CA-60, was closed for repairs, so we continued on I-10:

Freeway closed

More freeway scenes:

Freeway

Freeway

Freeway

Freeway

Freeway

Nearing our destination:

Freeway

The entrance of Orangeland RV Park:

Orangeland RV Park

After unhooking our truck, I drove it following our coach to our site:

Our coach

As usual, I’ll have a post about our experiences at this RV park after we’ve left it. And a timelapse video of the trip tomorrow. I still need more subscribers to the Sinclair Trails channel, so if you haven’t yet, please do so.