A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 104 miles from Bonita to Orange, California.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Bonita to Orangeland RV Park in Orange, California
We drove our coach 104 miles, about two hours of driving, from Sweetwater Summit Regional Park in Bonita to Orangeland RV Park in Orange, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map, with a potential stop pinned:
Tight turn for a big coach:
Big skeleton, narrow road:
CA-54 West:
Exit to I-805 North:
Heading to LA:
I like when they have helpful markings in each lane:
Traffic:
A large chandelier in this car:
Rest area, but it was full; that’s okay, we didn’t really need to stop:
Exit to CA-57 North:
Passing Angel Stadium:
Exit:
Still working on this new garage:
Arriving at Orangeland RV Park, our fifth stay here, the last just back in December:
Campground map:
Untoaded:
Our site, #29:
Always a nice place to stay when going to Disneyland… and in this case Angel Stadium.
Video: Sun City, Arizona to Bonita, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 354 miles from Sun City, Arizona to Bonita, California.
Sun City, Arizona to Sweetwater Summit Regional Park in Bonita, California
We drove our coach 354 miles, about six hours of driving, from Encore Paradise RV Resort in Sun City, Arizona to Sweetwater Summit Regional Park in Bonita, California.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Pulled out of our site in Encore Paradise:
Leaving Paradise:
Exit to I-10 West:
Teacups ride trailer:
Rail crossing:
Dinosaurs:
Another Tiffin Allegro Bus (with poor lane placement):
Oversize load:
Train:
Rest area:
Mountains:
Arizona centennial sign:
Fuel stop before leaving Arizona:
This short handle isn’t all that useful for washing RV windshields:
Spendy fuel, but cheaper than California:
Interesting bridge art:
California State Line:
Welcome to California, and Pacific Time Zone:
Agricultural Inspection Station:
No Inspection Today:
Rest area (with a dump station):
Interesting rocks:
Tecate Divide; Elevation 4140 feet:
Closed immigration inspection:
Exit to CA-125 South:
Arriving at the campground of Sweetwater Summit Regional Park:
Entrance station:
Campground map:
Our site, #134, with a nice concrete pad:
Very level site:
A nice campground; we’d stay here again.
Simplifying posts
I’ve decided to simplify my blog posts a bit. You may have noticed that I’m not following the schedule I used to use (Modification Mondays, Travel Tuesdays, etc); I’m now just posting each weekday.
Since the most useful and interesting posts (to certain audiences) are RV modifications and things we do, I will continue those posts much as I have been. The modifcation posts are useful for other Tiffin motorhome owners; I regularly link to them in Facebook groups to help others with similar issues. For other people, those posts are easy to skip. The exploring posts are more interesting to family and friends (and future us!), to see the interesting attractions we’ve experienced.
But travel and campground posts aren’t all that useful, and all the data recorded for campgrounds was a lot of work, so I’m going to merge those two, much as I did for the New Zealand series. The new format will be like the travel posts, with photos from the journey, but end with a few campground pictures, and omit all the data. So each post will document some interesting sights during our travel from one campground to the next, for anyone interested in that. They will continue to include maps with potential stops marked, which are useful for others traveling this route (including our future selves).
I will continue the travel timelapse videos, at least until after Alaska, since that will no doubt be very scenic. Those are a lot of work too, so I may discontinue them in the future, but we’ll see.
I know that the audience for this blog is very small; mostly just family and friends, and a few others who have seen the blog on Facebook on seen our motorhome on the road (via the QR code). In large part, it’s just a hobby travel diary for my own satisfaction. And that’s enough.
Video: Sun City to Tolleson back to Sun City, Arizona motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 37 miles round-trip from Encore Paradise RV Resort in Sun City to Velocity Truck Centers in Tolleson, then back to Paradise in Sun City, Arizona.
Velocity Truck Centers for engine air heater repair
As we were arriving in Phoenix, we got a Check Engine light on our dash. Never a welcome occurrence!
Looking in the BlueFire app, it showed more details of the codes; clearly a short of the engine intake air heater:
Later in our stay, we started the engine again to see if the codes were still there. They were, so I contacted NIRVC to see if they could fix it. They referred me to Velocity Truck Centers, which is a Cummins dealer, and has an RV department.
Travel route, heading south then back north afterwards:
Our appointment was for 7 AM; we considered arriving the day before, since they had a few full-hookup spots, but decided to just go very early in the morning. Probably a good thing, as their RV department was very busy that day; there may not have been a spot for us.
We toaded up just before sunrise:
Sunrise:
Exit to the truck place:
A hot air balloon in the distance:
Arriving at the truck service center:
The RV waiting room was so crowded that one couple brought in camp chairs:
We decided we didn’t want to hang out there, so went to Chick-fil-A for second breakfast:
Then some chores, and to Starbucks to spend the next five hours:
They completed the work in the afternoon; the issue was a metal-wrapped line intermittently touching the heater relay, causing a short. They secured the line, and replaced the relay, since it had been damaged by the arcing. Just over one RV Buck (about $1,300) to fix.
Heading back to the RV park after the work was complete:
Arriving back at Paradise:
Back to our site, which looks a bit weird without the RV there:
A hassle, but I’m glad it was a relatively easy fix.
Video: Palm Desert, California to Sun City, Arizona motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 252 miles from Palm Desert, California to Sun City, Arizona.
Travel from Palm Desert, California to Sun City, Arizona
We drove our coach 252 miles, about four hours of driving, from Palm Desert, California to Sun City, Arizona.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map, with potential stops pinned:
Entering I-10 East:
We got a little bit of fuel at California prices:
Back onto I-10 East:
Foggy:
Rest area closed:
Another rest area:
Interesting homebrew van:
Paladin in a box:
Arizona state line, and also Mountain time zone:
Welcome to Arizona:
Arizona Centenial:
Airstream trailer:
Interesting mountains:
Westbound freeway closed for hours due to accident:
Another fuel stop to top up, since we’ll be in one place for three months:
Filling diesel:
Filling DEF:
Exit to AZ-303 North:
Overpass:
Exit to Bell Road:
Arriving at Paradise RV Resort:
Registration parking, where we filled in the paperwork and untoaded:
Guided to our site:
Video: Orange to Palm Desert, California motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 103 miles from Orange to Palm Desert, California.