Stress!

Saturday, October 26, 2013

We haven’t been taking as many pictures as we should, so don’t have any of all the rabbits around the Dripping Springs campground. They were scurrying around in the underbrush.

This morning started with a very stressful drive. We got on I15 in Temecula, and two hours later emerged from the southern California freeway system mostly unscathed, but with probably several years off our life span! We do not like city driving! And it wasn’t even rush hour traffic. As soon as we turned off I215 onto 395 near Victorville, we found a dusty pull off and tried to recuperate. It took a while for us to wind down. Give us the slow life!

We drove 395 to Kramer Junction and turned west on 58 toward Bakersfield, going through Mojave and over Tehachapi pass. There were a large number of airplanes at the Mojave airport because it is one of the desert bone yards for old planes. It would probably be interesting to see, but we drove on by.

Buzzing right through Bakersfield, we again found a dusty area to pull off and fix some lunch, then enjoyed the quieter driving through miles and miles of citrus groves, on our trek toward Sequoia National Park. We went up through the town of Lindsay, and its olive groves, and then up into the foothills. The whole area was mostly citrus, with olives and some nuts.

We came to a dam and Lake Kaweah, and discovered a Corps of Engineers (COE) campground. We found a couple of sites there just before dark, so settled in. We didn’t have hookups, but there were showers and we all took advantage of that.

It had been a long day, and we were ready for some quiet.