Blog – Page 20 – Harry Lange

Richland, WA – Tuesday June 23, 2020

Got a notice yesterday that the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta has been moved to 2021.

Updated Fiesta count down.

Richland Wa, Wednesday June 17, 2020

We are at the Garcia’s for the next month. Tri-cities area is still in phase 1 of the Covid so the RV park is still on restricted usage. We are lucky because we already had reservations for a month. The original was to be here so Mike and Tanya could fly back east to one of Mike’s shipmates wedding on June 19. The wedding got canceled but we kept the month long reservations. You can stay at the park for one night or for over 30 nights. In phase one Covid their is no recreational camping in the area. Thus we’ll be here for a while.

Map and campsite pictures, site 137.

Big House Enumclaw – Trip Summary – Wednesday May 6, 2020

Trip wrap up, we drove to Goodyear and returned on the same route. We did spend an extra month at Goodyear while the whole country was locked down and we had no place to go. At the RV park in Goodyear we could get out and walk everyday, half of the people in the park left on April 1.

Motorhome 3101 miles
Pick – up 1741

Gas Prices
High $3.20 – Bakersfield, CA – February 11, 2020
Low $1.80 – Arizona-California Boarder – May 2, 2020
Avg $2.49
472 gallons (coach only)

Gas Price from February to May

Feb       May
$2.54    $1.84   Pilot North of Salem, OR
$2.59     $1.99   7 Feather’s Casino, OR
$2.94      $2.54   Pilot Dunnigan, CA
$3.20      $2.30   Pilot Bakersfield, CA
$2.70       $1.80   Pilot Arizona-California Boarder

Our 2020 Spring travels,

Big House Enumclaw, WA – Tuesday May 5, 2020

Last day of this trip and we are at the Big House until we go to visit the Garcia’s in June. With all the closures we don’t know what the rest of year looks like.

Santiam River Rest Stop, OR – Monday May 4, 2020

Today’s drive:

We have stayed here before going both north and south. With all the Oregon State Parks closed we didn’t have a lot of choices.
410 miles today.

Corning, CA – Sunday May 3, 2020

Today was the long drive so we were up early and rolling at 6:00 a.m. Got here at the rest stop just north of Corning at 4:00 p.m. with 490 miles.

Gas pricing Bakersfield: February $3.20. May $2.30
Dunnigan: February $2.94. May $2.54

The only place we had traffic was between Stockton and Sacramento. The traffic in downtown Sacramento was wide open with a little congestion by the airport then wide open again. Monday looks to be 400 miles.

Boron, AZ – Saturday May 2, 2020

We got an early start out of Quartzsite this morning. We had wheels rolling at 6:00 a.m. I wanted to get north of Joshua Tree National Park and on our way to Barstow before it got hot. I don’t really like to over working the coach by driving in really hot weather. Quartzsite and Palm Spring are going to get back to 100 and Boron is getting to 82.

We got gas at the AZ-CA boarder in February for $2.70 and in May for $1.80.

Here is today’s drive and tonight stopping point the Boron Rest Stop, 296 miles.

Tomorrow will be the long drive to Northern California.

Quartzsite, AZ – Friday May 1, 2020

Another warm day in the desert, this will be our last hot day for a while. At this point we don’t really know what our spring, summer and fall travels will look like, or much traveling at all.

A bad accident on I-10 this morning so dropped down south a little to miss it.

Same spot as always.

Goodyear, AZ – Thursday April 30, 2020

Tomorrow we are heading north to the big house and cooler weather. Highs here have been over 100 for the last several days and or going to stay that away until September. Phoenix get 110 days with temperatures over 100.