FEB 7, Sunday; To Lytle Creek, California
After a lazy morning, we finally left around 10:15 am. We drove down Dillon to west I-10. The wind was really blowing and of course, we were going against it. We stopped for coffee and I noticed that diesel was at 2.83/gal so I filled up. We continued on I-10 to 215 north then southwest on I-5 to Lytle Creek road. The road to the campsite was quite tortuous but very, very scenic. We drove into a canyon and through the village of Lytle Creek. Small but quaint, we arrived at our resort north of town: Mountain Lakes RV Resort, an ROD member. After checking in, we set up in site 736 and went for a walk with Tucker to explore.
This is a really pretty park; it has over 400 sites, two small lakes, a store, a restaurant/bar and is mainly filled with young Californian family. They had a party going for Super Bowl at the bar/restaurant so after taking Tucker back to the rig, we went to the restaurant, got a table and had a late lunch and watched the Super Bowl football game. We talked to a young couple who told us that Lytle Creek village is quite rough & tough and known for its growth of marijuana...GREAT!!!
We don’t have cellular service here so have to use the pay phone or go lower down in the valley. There is free WIFI but we have to go to the clubhouse to get it. We came home after a couple of hours and watched the rest of the game as we have cable. I paid $35 for two weeks and that was for the cable service. Campsites under ROD are free! We didn’t unhooked as we have to go to Giant RV in the morning. We had been waiting for parts which are now all in, so we are told!? I’ve also been having a lot of problems with my throttle. It is getting worst and getting scary, especially in traffic so I will have to get this looked after tomorrow.
It is quite cold here, barely 52*F (11*C) and it going down to 34*F overnight!
We travelled 130KM (80 miles) in 2 hours at an average speed of 40 mph. The highway was really busy.
N 34* 15’ 16”
W 116* 29’ 22”
Alt: 3255 feet
FEB 8, Monday, to Colton for warranty repairs
Colton is 17 miles from here so we re-traced our way back down and got there for 10 a.m. We dropped off the rig at Giant RV and went to the Ford dealership in Riverside to have the problem with the accelerator dealt with. Three hours later, we were on our way again with the problem not fix but with an appointment for tomorrow to get a new throttle pedal (this will be the fourth one in 3 years!!!?) I still think that there is more to the problems but the mechanics say that it doesn’t show on the DTC so no point in arguing. So we will try it one last time. I told Val that if it happens again, I am buying a DODGE!!!!
We picked up our rig at Giant and came back to our site in Mountain Lakes RV Resort. We are here for 2 weeks.
FEB 9, Tuesday, Lytle Creek
We got up early and drove down to the Ford Dealer but first I took the kayaks off the roof. It was cloudy and cold this morning up here but warmed up some in Riverside, 2300 feet lower. The job took an hour and a half and $441 poorer; we drove to Wal-Mart to get some groceries and came home. It is raining right now and some snow is falling in the form of small hail. The furnace is on, the beer is cold and the book is good read so what more could we ask for!? By the way, the throttle is responding much better so let’s hope it’s the last one for the next couple years, at least!!?
FEB 10, Wednesday, Lytle Creek.
A cold and cloudy day greeted us this morning. Due to the cold overnight, a water line burst in the campground and we will be without water for about an hour; well it was actually 3 hours! The sun is peeking out the clouds so we went for a drive to explore this canyon. As an added bonus, we did a few geo-caches too. One of them took us up the mountain behind our resort and what a view it was (check out the pictures). We took a few pictures then headed for the next cache which took us around and over the mountain and on the north-east side of it where we headed down and found three more caches. More spectacular view! We drove on “old route 66” where we found a historical marker about the Cajon pass (Blue Cut)which was the main pass through the Gabriels and San Bernardino mountain ranges with the Mojave desert to the north and the San Bernardino valley to the south. This completed one more cache for us.
As it was getting late, we came home and stopped in the village at the pub/restaurant for a beer and to check it out. Kind of funky/hippie’ish !
We had dinner then relax from another good day of exploring.
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