We drove our coach 249 miles, about four hours of driving, from San Antonio, Texas to Galveston, Texas.

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

An interactive map:

Paladin on the dash while leaving the RV park:

Frontage road to I-10 East:

Buc-ees:

I was amused by the name Flatonia, approapriate for Texas:

Motorhome and T@B trailer:

Rest area:

Several vehicles cutting across from the freeway to a frontage road to avoid traffic… which didn’t really work out for them, as the freeway traffic eased up after roadworks, and there wasn’t an entrance back onto the freeway for a while:

Roadworks:

A rather interesting name caught my eye on the map: “Mario’s Flying Pizza Airport”:

The GPS was going insane, thinking we were not on the freeway:

Multiple overpasses outside Houston:

Evil-looking building in Houston:

Downtown Houston:

Bridge to Galveston Island:

Reached the gulf coast:

Creepy-looking clouds:

Galveston Island State Park entrance:

Entrance station:

Our site:

Our coach arriving at our site:

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: