Little Bear Bay
The success of our California road trip has inspired us to try to make the Trillium an even better camping machine, and to use it as often as possible. With that goal in mind, I installed a new propane heater in the Trillium on Saturday, and eager to try it out, we headed out to […]
Thoughts on our road trip after a few weeks out.
Wrap-up post Budget Jill had a spread sheet and kept track of expenses as we went, so we could compare costs of this vacation to a flying vacation. Some interesting items were fuel, at only $300 for the trip. Not bad at all considering the odometer read 4505 km when we parked. Lessons Learned As […]
Last of the Road Trip Posts (long!)
Day 12 Today was all about the driving. We had done as much preparatory packing last night as we could, so all we managed to be on the road by 8. We are taking the most direct route home and are planning to power through as fast as we can. We are limited by the […]
Day 10 and 11(actually posted morning of Day 12)
Day 10 I took note of the odometer this morning, it was a 2320 km trip down here. The plan is to take the interstates on the way back, so it will be interesting to see how much shorter the drive is. After the obligatory morning stint at the playground, we headed into San Luis […]
Day 8 and 9
Despite the weather being perfectly adequate and the proximity to San Francisco being desirable, there simply weren’t any suitable campsites in the vicinity. They were all too far from the beach or town, or were worse than the one we stayed at last night. At least it had some bark mulch, a few of the […]