January 18 to 20, 2010; To Menifee California

JAN 18, Monday, Adventures in Menifee, California
We left Desert Pool around 9 am and drove west on Dillon to I-10. Lots of traffic on the Freeway and we eventually ran into rain by the time we reached Colton where we stopped at Giant RV Dealer. We stopped here to get a couple of warranty issues dealt with but as I suspected, they have to order parts of the defaults so we will be returning on our return trip to Desert Hot Spring on the 25th.
We headed south on I-215 where we had another mishap: As we were driving, I heard a clung then the next thing I know, I watched Val’s kayak, which was above me, go off the truck and across three lanes of traffic without causing damage to the truck/trailer and no major accident...Now that’s what I call PURE UNADULTERY LUCK!
We made an emergency stop, ran back to the kayak, picked it up and brought it back to the truck. The traffic actually stopped for us to cross the three lanes with our kayak.
So after tying it back, (the strap had come loose from the heavy winds), we continued south and eventually arrived in Menifee. Miss Daisy took us on a new road and got us lost. There had been some re-routing of the highway and she got confused! We called the park and eventually arrived at Wilderness RV Park, a Thousand Trail Park, and set up at site #438. This is free for us under R.O.D. Of course, it was dark by the time we set up and raining lightly. We are here for 7 days.

We travelled 111 miles (168KM) in 8 hrs at an average speed of 32 MPH (maximum reached was 63 mph)
N 33* 40’ 33”
W 117* 08’ 33”
Alt: 1460 feet


JAN 19, Tuesday, Menifee
This was a cold and very wet day! I took Tucker out this morning just in time before it poured in torrents. There is report of flood and mudslide everywhere around us. Even this park is getting flooded from the amount of water falling. It is nice however to see trees and grass around even if under water. It finally abated some later in the afternoon and the sun even came out but for long. It began raining again in the evening but at least, it’s warm and cozy in here! Val has dinner on and then we will watch a movie


JAN 20, Wednesday, Menifee
Another drab and cold day; and once again we stayed home! We don’t want to drive in this stuff especially with all the flood warnings and accidents caused by the weather as announced in TV. So we read and slept the day away