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”:

Unknown Fault on the Magnum inverter panel

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

Unknown Fault on the Magnum inverter panel

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”:

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:

Magnum inverter unit

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:

Map

An interactive map:

Our site:

Our site

Our site

Our site

Our site

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

Tree

Tree

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

Crest Bar & Grill

Menu:

Menu

Menu

Dinner

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.

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:

Route

An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:

Didn’t see any of the wild pigs:

Didn't see any of the wild pigs

Narrow bridge in the campground:

Narrow bridge

Tres Pinos:

Tres Pinos

San Luis Reservoir:

San Luis Reservoir

San Luis Reservoir

Petro lunch stop:

Lunch stop

BK for lunch:

BK for lunch

Joining I-5 South:

Joining I-5 South

Closed rest area:

Closed rest area

Next one was open, though:

Next one was open, though

Classic BMWs:

Classic BMWs

Exit to Bakersfield:

Exit to Bakersfield

Bakersfield Auto Mall:

Bakersfield Auto Mall

Arriving at the KOA:

Arriving at KOA

KOA check in:

KOA check in

Guided to our site:

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:

Stickers on side of RV

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:

State stickers

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

States map

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:

National Park stickers

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:

Sticker and pin board

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

Sticker and pin board

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:

Jenn adding last state pin

Completed visiting all contiguous National Parks:

National Park stickers on slide of motorhome

Spending a month exploring New Zealand:

New Zealand route

After visiting all National Parks in the 48 contiguious states, which are our most and least favorites?

NPS tier list

Back from New Zealand:

Van on beachfront with lighthouse in background

Video

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.

About Sinclair Trails

2025 campgrounds

Another interesting summary of 2025 — the places we stayed during the year. See also the posts for 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Campgrounds Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

For each location, I’ve included a link to the corresponding blog post, so you can click through to see a lot more information, and a picture of our site.

You can also see all of the campground-related blog posts via the campsite category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Read to the end for some sneak peeks of places we stayed that I haven’t yet posted about!

Rainbow Springs State Park:

Our site

Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort:

Our site

Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground:

Our site

Thousand Trails Orlando RV Resort:

Our site

Thousand Trails Peace River:

Our site

Crooked River State Park:

Our site

James Island County Park:

Our site

Holly Point Campground – Falls Lake SRA:

Our site

Emporia / I-95 KOA:

Our site

Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay:

Our site

Cherry Hill Park:

Our site

Thousand Trails Lake & Shore:

Our site

Thousand Trails Hershey RV Campground:

Our site

West Branch State Park:

Our site

Thousand Trails St Clair:

Our site

Traverse City KOA Holiday:

Our site

Shipshewana Campground – South Park:

Our site

Punderson State Park Campground:

Our site

Four Mile Creek State Park:

Our site

Cooperstown KOA Journey:

Our site

Quechee Pine Valley Campground:

Our site

Thousand Trails Moody Beach:

Our site

Narrows Too Camping Resort:

Our site

Normandy Farms Family Camping Resort:

Our site

New York City North / Newburgh KOA Holiday:

Our site

The Bellefonte Campground:

Our site

Mountain Top Campground:

Our site

Olive Branch Campground:

Our site

Scottsburg Raintree Lake KOA Holiday:

Our site

Indiana Dunes State Park:

Our site

HWH Corporation:

Our site

Milton KOA Holiday:

Our site

Kewaunee RV & Campground:

Our site

Hancock City Park:

Our site

Cloquet / Duluth KOA Journey:

Our site

The Pines of Kabetogama Resort:

Our site

Minneapolis Northwest KOA Journey:

Our site

Mitchell KOA Journey:

Our site

Custer’s Gulch RV Park:

Our site

Buffalo KOA Journey:

Our site

Fishing Bridge RV Park, Yellowstone National Park:

Our site

Jim & Mary’s RV Park:

Our site

Ephrata RV Park & Campground:

Our site

Our Washington home:

Our coach at home

Portland Fairview RV Park:

Our site

Sutherlin/Umpqua Valley KOA Holiday:

Our site

Red Bluff KOA Journey:

Our site

Thousand Trails San Benito:

Our site

Bakersfield KOA Journey: [post coming later]

Our site

Golden Shore RV Resort: [post coming later]

Our site

We camped in lots of places in New Zealand at this point, but I’ll summarize those sometime after I’ve published the blog posts about them.

Orangeland RV Park: [post coming later]

Our site

Thousand Trails Palm Springs: [post coming later]

Our site

Lots of interesting (and not so interesting) places to stay last year.