We returned to where we had stored the RV for the last two months, up in Acton, CA, about an hour and a half north of Robbie's. So our first challenge of the day was to find that the RV Mercedes battery was dead, dead as a door nail. No problem, this happened once last year, when we bought the battery cables. Open the hood--but, oops, we can't find the battery! And, oh yes, our car battery isn't really strong enough to jump start the dead RV battery. So, we drove back over to the office, figuring that an RV campground would be very familiar with dead RV batteries. But, no, for liability reasons, they are prohibited from doing or even suggesting how to jump start an RV. Fortunately, a very nice man, who happened to be sitting in the office with us, who was a local HVAC/plumber, offered to take his truck over to the storage area and help us jump it. Even he had trouble finding the battery. Turns out the battery ISN'T under the hood, but is somewhere below the seats. HOWEVER, it seems there is a cable under the hood that had a red cap on it, that when you turn it just so, and then push it down, just right, it reveals a connection to the positive terminal on the hidden battery. Once we figured that out, jumping it turned out to be straight forward.
Second challenge was to find a good spot to camp, given that the sites near the office all had poor WiFi/internet/cell coverage, along with the train tracks right nearby. So, we went over to the second area, with a high open area, and a more shady area down lower, by the "stream", or would be stream, if there had been any water in it. The lower level was nixed due to bad internet, so we traversed many times the upper area, looking at the open sites, for one we could claim. However, each on had a sign on the electrical box saying "No power" or "needs maintenance". Finally, a couple happened to mention that a site right at the entrance, was open. We found it and took it. Worked out OK, once we were finally able to level the RV.
Since we were only going to be here two nights, and had to have a clean, empty refrigerator for when we take the RV in for service, we went into the little town, and found a nice Mexican restaurant for dinner. This area is in the mountains, in canyons, and is very interesting, but we find it very dry and brown. Nice place to visit, but we wouldn't want to live here.
No photos today.
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