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: