Travel from Manteca to Groveland, California

We drove our coach 95 miles, about two hours of driving, from Manteca, California to Groveland, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

Route map

An interactive map:

Thank you for visiting:

Thank you for visiting

Lots of low trees scraped our roof:

Low trees

Narrow road and roadworks:

Narrow road and roadworks

Milk plant:

Milk plant

Oakdale:

Oakdale

CA-120 East:

CA-120 East

Yosemite reservations required weekends:

Yosemite reservations required weekends

CA-120 East

Don Pedro Lake:

Don Pedro Lake

Pipes:

Pipes

Curvy highway (check out the video for this journey with a picture-in-picture of this part):

Curvy highway

Groveland:

Groveland

Thousand Trails gas station:

Thousand Trails gas station

Campground office:

Office

The site we chose:

Our site

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Baseball: San Francisco Giants vs San Diego Padres

We attended a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres, playing at the Giant’s ballpark, Oracle Park in San Francisco, California. What we thought would be our last game of the year (but actually only our last game of the regular season), and the 8th ballpark we’ve visited in our stretch goal of visiting all of the ballparks (six new ones this year, plus re-visiting the Mariners’ park a couple of times).

Bay Bridge:

Bay Bridge

Oracle Park:

Oracle Park

Team store:

Team store

Oracle Park

Three times world champions:

World champions

Concessions:

Concessions

Burritos:

Burritos

View from outfield:

View from outfield

Big Coke bottle:

Big Coke bottle

Big glove:

Big glove

Cable car:

Cable car

Ferry next to the ballpark:

Ferry

View from outfield:

View from outfield

World Series rings:

Rings

View from our seats:

View from our seats

Orlando Cepeda memorial:

Orlando Cepeda memorial

Mascot:

Mascot

First pitches:

First pitches

View from our seats

Pitching

Batting

Out at first:

Out at first

View from our seats

An advertising boat circled for half the game:

Boat circled for half the game

Batting

Exploring Oracle Park:

Oracle Park

Bridge view

Exploring

Boats and kayaks next to the ballpark, waiting for a splash home run:

Exploring

Our traditional ballpark dessert:

Our traditional ballpark dessert

Submarine pitcher:

Submarine pitcher

Runs score:

Run scores

That was a new splash hit home run:

A new splah hit home run

Final scores:

Final scores

Padres win, sorry Giants:

Padres win, sorry Giants

Turtle Beach RV Resort

We stayed at Turtle Beach RV Resort in Manteca, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A Thousand Trails park, so free for us. Calling it a “resort” is a bit of a stretch, though.

Dates:

Check in: 2024-09-13
Check out: 2024-09-16
3 nights

Weather:

Sunny
High temps 80-92°F, lows 54-58°F
Some wind, gusts to 31 MPH

Noise:

No road noise
Nearby train horn noise
A bunch of neighbor noise (kids and TV)

Site:

#C-16, back-in, gravel
Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
Somewhat level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
Gravel driveway about 45 feet long by 8 feet wide
About 20 feet to neighbor on passenger side
About 15 feet to neighbor on driver side
Picnic table
Some tall trees
Not very clean site; small bits of trash

Utilities:

50 amp power, conveniently located
47 PSI water, conveniently located
Good sewer connection, very conveniently located (less than one 10-foot pipe needed)
Some sites aren’t full-hook-up, so we were glad to get one

Internet (in usage priority order):

AT&T: 370-460 Mbps down, 2-9 Mbps up, 40 ms ping
Verizon: 25 Mbps down, 25 Mbps up, 70 ms ping
T-Mobile: unreliable service
Starlink: not used
Campground Wi-Fi: none

Amenities:

Garbage dumpsters

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Smaller campground amidst booming suburbs

This is a standard, older Thousand Trails, which is paying the price for deferred maintenance. The sites were fairly basic and rustic, and we were lucky to snag one of the few 50A sites for our short stay. A no-frills park combined with an access road that is not big rig-friendly makes for interesting times. The road is narrow and winding, with lots of trees right up to the edge of the road and growing low over it. That’s after you pass through a gauntlet of new suburban development with every other road closed and detours everywhere. Frequent train horns all day and night keep it from being very restful once you’re there. We camped at Turtle Beach RV Resort in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

Map