Day 21 (Santa Paula, CA)

(Santa Paula, CA): The heat finally outdid our air conditioner and we found another RV Park WITH TREES. The temps is a bit lower here as well. Boots thinks she might survive now. The RV Pk has a laundry, lemon orchards all around, nice areas for walking Karma, so it's a huge improvement. The camp ground is full of full-timers – or the employed might be a better way of describing the other residents. We are finding a lot of people who are RVing to the locally available jobs. This is the most expensive spot so far. Probably because it’s private and in the LA area. Santa Paula is a small but nice town. It’s not far from Oxnard and Ventura so we have city-fixes. For those of you who don't know, Ventura is on the ocean so temps there are great.

We are just now recovering from the 14 day drive down (and Hell Canyon!). After Kassie finishes her college session and returns to Alaska, we will begin travelling in earnest. We will probably get out of the West and travel to family this fall or next spring. We want to sort of hopscotch across America - drive 1-3 days and stay for 20-30; drive 1-3 days and stay for 20-30, etc. So we aren’t sure if it fits in this fall or next spring.

We don’t have our TV on satellite yet and our internet air-card coverage is spotty in the high canyon campgrounds. So, we are reading a lot and working on our plans.

We left Alaska with diesel $5.79 and our mileage at 10.3. I’m not even going to talk about the details in Canada. But today we paid $4.59 and are getting 13.7 miles to the gallon. For the last month we have been stationary.