A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 223 miles from Dunlap, California to Acton, California.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Dunlap to Acton, California
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:
Video: Groveland to Dunlap, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 169 miles from Groveland to Dunlap, California.
Travel from Groveland to Dunlap, California
We drove our coach 169 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Groveland to Dunlap, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map:
Hills:
A narrow curvy road; not preferred, but the best route (and it was RV-safe):
Coulterville, a fairly cute little town:
No rest areas, so a brief stop on side of the road, along with a couple of trailers:
Mammoths on a bridge over CA-99, apparently in honor of Columbian Mammoths at the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County:
A soft sand parking spot at a TA truck stop:
Food court at the TA; we had Fatburger for lunch:
Hills:
Our destination:
Video: Manteca to Groveland, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 95 miles from Manteca to Groveland, California.
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:
An interactive map:
Thank you for visiting:
Lots of low trees scraped our roof:
Narrow road and roadworks:
Milk plant:
Oakdale:
CA-120 East:
Yosemite reservations required weekends:
Don Pedro Lake:
Pipes:
Curvy highway (check out the video for this journey with a picture-in-picture of this part):
Groveland:
Thousand Trails gas station:
Campground office:
The site we chose:
Video: Red Bluff to Manteca, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 194 miles from Red Bluff, California to Manteca, California.
Travel from Red Bluff to Manteca, California
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:
Video: Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 165 miles from Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California.
Travel from Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California
We drove our coach 165 miles, about four hours of driving, from Ashland, Oregon to Red Bluff, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading south:
An interactive map:
Goodbye super-low Emigrant Lake:
Joining I-5, with lots of wildfire smoke:
“Long steep downgrade ahead”:
“Siskiyou Mountain Summit elevation 4,310 feet, highest elevation on I-5”:
“Oregon thanks you, come back soon”:
“Welcome to California”:
A glimpse of Mount Shasta in the background:
Agricultural inspection station, unstaffed when we went through:
Mount Shasta view:
Rest area with RV parking:
Roadworks:
Shasta Lake:
For comparison, a view of the lake when we last went past here in 2021, quite a lot lower:
Fuel stop:
The pump said “Dispenser Reserved”, so should have been blocked off; we had to pull around to another pump:
Our destination:
Our site:
