The mansion
As you can see, the RV turned out to be a bit of a mansion,
this is not the RV we booked, we booked a medium size with no slide outs for
the princely sum of about £580 for the 2 weeks. This on the other hand is a
huge thing, practically a lorry with a livingroom and bedroom that slide out
sideways to make even more space very luxurious but wholly unnecessary.
The train ride to collect it was a bit of an eye opener,
beside the track were streets of shabby motorhomes, cars covered with
tarpaulins and a smell of sewage, San Francisco homeless problems laid bare as
though it were a tourist attraction one could view from the comfort of a train
carriage.
I don’t love San Francisco and the first thing we did was
leave it behind on the road to the county showground campsite. Having stocked
up on groceries the next day we headed out to find somewhere nice to eat lunch
and stumbled on a gem in the California mountains. Del Valle is pretty much an
oasis after the crowded chaos of people in the last couple of days so it became
the second night stop. Cut off from phone signal and wifi but with the
entertainment of watching ground squirrels run up a track and the wild turkeys
on a covert mission for crumbs left by campers. By the morning the turkeys were
giggling and gobbling up the hill somewhere and the frogs were awake to add to
the wildlife chorus I wasn’t expecting to find in California.
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