We drove our coach 142 miles, about three hours of driving, from Palm Desert, California to Winterhaven, California.

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

An interactive map:

Departing Thousand Trails Palm Springs, with Paladin on the dash, and our tag ready to hand in at the gate:

Passing a recumbent bike:

Joining I-10 East:

Salton Sea:

Fuel stop at Love’s; we only added a bit of fuel to reduce range anxiety, since it will be much cheaper once we leave California:

Lots of parking available; we went in to have Subway sandwiches for lunch:

Paladin on the dash when we got back:

Later, while underway, Paladin in his safe space, with a sunbeam:

I-8 East:

Passing by the border wall for Mexico:

Sand dunes and canal:

Boondockers and their dune buggies:

Passing by our destination, accessed via a side road from the next exit:

Entrance to our destination:

Our site:

We drove our coach 103 miles, about two hours of driving, from Orange, California to Palm Desert, California.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east; the start of our eastward migration for 2024, heading from California to Florida:

An interactive map:

Leaving the RV park:

Getting on CA-55 North:

Marine layer:

Hills:

Ah I-10, our old friend; one of the worst quality freeways in the country:

Cabazon Dinosaurs (which we visited a couple of years ago):

Rest area, where we had an early lunch to kill some time, as we were too early for check-in:

Paladin on the dash when getting back on the freeway (he jumped down moments later):

Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs overpass:

Our destination, the Thousand Trails Palm Springs entrance:

Check in:

Paladin on the dash going to our site:

We drove our coach just 83 miles, about two hours of driving, from Acton, California to Orange, California.

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

An interactive map:

Ready to leave; it was a nice view:

Passing by our site:

Taking out the trash:

An RV waiting for check-in time:

Interesting rocks by CA-14, the back side of Vasquez Rocks:

A classic car entering the freeway:

I-5 South Truck Route:

Paladin sat on the dash for a while, enjoying a sunbeam; unusual for him, but he’s been getting used to it:

Citadel outlet mall:

We just love the super-smooth LA freeways:

Tight corner onto Struck Ave; fine so long as nobody is waiting to turn out:

Our destination, Orangeland RV Park:

Busy check-in time:

Guided to our site by a guy on a Segway:

We drove our coach 223 miles, about five hours of driving, from Dunlap, California to Acton, California.

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

An interactive map:

I discovered lots of ants coming up the Starlink cable when packing it up; we were happy to be leaving the invasive ants behind:

Curvy road:

Cutler water tower:

Rest area:

Road disappearing into the distance:

Pipes and vines:

I-5 freeway heading into the hills:

There were occasional water signs, for water dispensers for car radiators; hadn’t seen that elsewhere:

Another rest area:

Lake Hughes; a rare full lake in California:

5% grade:

Six Flags:

Overpass from I-5 to CA-14:

Tunnel on Soledad Canyon Road:

Our destination:

Check in area:

Paladin on the dash:

Thousand Trails is first-come-first-seved, so we drove around a bit to find a site, and lucked into an excellent one:

We drove our coach 194 miles, about four hours of driving, from Red Bluff, California to Manteca, California.

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

An interactive map:

Rice field:

Rest area:

U-Haul towing a U-Haul:

Yolo:

Another rice field:

Rest area:

Paladin sat on the dash for a minute:

Sacramento:

Lots of tomatoes on the side of the road:

From trucks like this:

Sharp curve:

Roadworks; what kind of crazy road designers would make such narrow main roads? No room for bike lanes or expansion:

Lots of low trees scraped our roof:

Arriving at Thousand Trails Turtle Beach:

Info sign, with arrival packets; someone came along and told us an available site, too:

Our site:

We drove our coach 399 miles, about seven hours of driving, from Hardin, Montana to Missoula, Montana. Having recently been on the east coast at the time, driving seven hours within one state was a bit of a change!

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

An interactive map:

Approaching the exit gate from the RV park:

It was supposed to open automatically, but didn’t, so we had to call for help to open it:

Refinery in Billings:

Fuel stop:

Pink truck with Hello Kitty:

Rest area:

“Rattlesnakes have been observed; please stay on sidewalks”:

Paladin asleep in his dash bed while driving down the freeway, for quite a while:

Yellowstone River:

Fun with zoom:

We saw this car spin out; probably lost control going too fast around curves:

Truck parking area:

Road works:

Sunflowers:

Rail bridge over Madison River:

Interesting rocks:

Closed rest area:

“Our Lady of the Rockies” statue in Butte, Montana:

Clark Fork:

Horse in the water:

Arriving at our destination, Jim & Mary’s RV Park: