A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 129 miles from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California.
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Travel from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California
We drove our coach 129 miles, about three hours of driving, from Bakersfield to Long Beach, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Leaving the KOA:


Always nice to see a Dutch Bros:

CA-99 freeway entrance:

Very California: bare hills, big pipes, grapes, and a pump jack:

Truck bypass:

The Petro was a fuel stop option, but we didn’t need it:

I’m sure there are hills up there somewhere:

Ah, there they are:

Rest area:

Watch out birbs!

A dump station at the rest area:

Tejon Pass, elevation 4144 feet:

Lake Hughes:

Downhill:

Truck bypass:

Exit to Santa Monica:

Playing Weezer’s Beverly Hills when approaching Beverly Hills:

Playing Everclear’s Santa Monica in Santa Monica’s unclear traffic:

Exit to Long Beach:

Los Angeles River, actually with water in it near the coast:

Long Beach:

Arriving at Golden Shore RV Resort:

Driving to our site:

Our site:

Magnum inverter reset
Our coach has an inverter, which is a device to convert battery power into 110 volt electricity. It also manages charging the battery from the campground pedestal power.
One day the Magnum inverter panel in our coach reported an “Unknown Fault”:

The fault and voltage display kept changing, with garbage values:

Time to apply an old computer maxim: “when in doubt, reboot.” I looked up the instructions on how to reboot the inverter, in its manual under “Performing an Inverter Reset”:

Here’s the Magnum inverter unit in the basement; in our 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP motorhome it is mounted on the ceiling of the frontmost main storage compartment, on the driver side:

So I just needed to turn off the power at the pedestal, then hold down the button (below the green light in that photo) for 15 seconds. That did the trick.
Bakersfield KOA Journey
We stayed at Bakersfield KOA Journey in Bakersfield, California. (Campground Reviews listing.)
We do like the convenience of KOAs for one-night stops. This was another fairly fancy one, and we appreciated the on-site restaurant.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-10-31
- Check out: 2025-11-01
- 1 night
Weather:
- Sunny
- High temp 78°F, low 52°F
- Negligible wind, gusts to 6 MPH
Noise:
- Nearby road noise and sirens
- Distant train horn noise
- Some neighbor noise
Site:
- #136, pull-through, gravel
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
- Used air leveling, since only one night
- Gravel driveway about 105 feet long by 16 feet wide
- 12 feet to neighbors on both sides
- Picnic table
- Tall trees, too close to the couch
- Clean site
- Elevation 360 feet, front facing NE
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, a little inconveniently located near the front of the site
- Didn’t hook up water or sewer
Internet (in usage priority order):
- Starlink: 40-60 Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- RoamLink: 7 Mbps down, 7 Mbps up, 120 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
- AT&T: 270-330 Mbps down, 8-16 Mbps up, 70-130 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Pool
- Onsite restaurant
Campground map:

An interactive map:
Our site:




A tree is a little too friendly; really should be trimmed more:


We always enjoy when a RV park has an onsite restaurant; this one has the Crest Bar & Grill:

Menu:



Sites are a bit tight, and very few long enough for us to not have to untoad, but we’d be happy to stay here again.
Video: Paicines to Bakersfield, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 225 miles from Paicines to Bakersfield, California.
Travel from Paicines to Bakersfield, California
Back to our regular posts….
We drove our coach 225 miles, about five hours of driving, from Paicines to Bakersfield, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Didn’t see any of the wild pigs:

Narrow bridge in the campground:

Tres Pinos:

San Luis Reservoir:


Petro lunch stop:

BK for lunch:

Joining I-5 South:

Closed rest area:

Next one was open, though:

Classic BMWs:

Exit to Bakersfield:

Bakersfield Auto Mall:

Arriving at the KOA:

KOA check in:

Guided to our site:

2025 stickers
On the passenger-side slide-out, we have a large sticker with the Sinclair Trails logo, a map of the US showing the states we’re visited, a QR code for the website, and stickers with the SinclairTrails.com domain name and @SinclairTrails social handle:

The states sticker consists of separate stickers for each state, applied to a base sticker. Our rule is that we have to have done something in a state for it to count (e.g. camp, eat in a restaurant, or explore something, not just driving through). Once we have done something in a new state, we add its sticker. We’ve now visited all of the contiguous states, 48 out of 50; just Alaska and Hawaii to go:

These stickers tend to fade fairly quickly; here’s what they looked like a year ago, for comparison:

We may get new stickers that include Canada when we visit Alaska, since we’ll drive through part of Canada to get there.
On the driver-side slide-out of the coach, we have stickers for each of the National Parks we have visited, that being another of the goals in our travels. We visited 5 more parks in 2025 (plus revisited several), so have visited 52 of the 63 parks; just 11 left:

Of course, we’ve also visited numerous National Monuments, National Historic Sites, and other classifications. With 433 units of various types in the National Park System, not to mention parks administered by states, forest services, etc, we had to cap the memorializing of them somewhere! National Parks are the goal; others are gravy.
However, inside our coach we have a framed board with a wooden map of the US, around which we add stickers and pins for any kind of attraction we visit (we get stickers if available small enough, but tend to get pins instead). It’s populated a bit more since 2024, 2023, and 2022, though still some space for future attractions:

The wooden map has pins for states we’ve visited; the pins feature the state flags:

Fun memorabilia.
2025 special posts
While most of the posts on this blog are about modifications, travel, campgrounds, and attractions, I sometimes post about other topics. This is a summary of those posts from 2025. (See also those from 2024, 2023, and 2022.) These posts have the special category (with earliest or latest posts at the top).
You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Special Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.
As with previous summaries, for each I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details.
Completed visiting all contiguous states:
Completed visiting all contiguous National Parks:
Video: 2021-2025 motorhome travel timelapses in about a minute!
Yesterday I posted a 23 minute video with all of our motorhome travel from 2021 to 2025. But who has time for a 23 minute video? For total ridiculousness, here’s the same video sped up 20 times (with different music, to avoid chipmunk squeals), taking about one minute.
Video: 2021-2025 motorhome travel timelapses in 23 minutes!
Was the 2025 timelapses video not fast enough for you? Hey, I understand; 45 minutes is quite long, even at 20x the original timelapses speed.
This video combines the 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 timelapse videos, and makes them eight times faster (i.e. 160 times faster than original timelapses), so you can see about 45k miles of motorhome travel in about 23 minutes!
Chapters:
00:00 2021 travel
00:52 2022 travel
05:41 2023 travel
10:44 2024 travel
17:13 2025 travel
About Sinclair Trails:
The travels of David and Jennifer Sinclair around the US, full-timing in their 40-foot 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP luxury motorhome.
We post timelapse videos of our travel days on YouTube, typically on Tuesdays.
On the Sinclair Trails blog, we post about RV modifications on Mondays, travel on Tuesdays, campgrounds and RV parks on Wednesdays, and exploring national parks and other parks and attractions on Thursdays and Fridays.




