This morning Dave called an authorized generator repair place in Ventura, California. Their guy that works on LPG generators works Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and they take work on a first come first served basis. I am NOT going to be there at 7 a.m. Monday morning. But, it does look like we will hang around this area until Monday so they can look at it.
Riding along I saw a U.S. flag with an RV flag flying under it. It marked the entrance to El Capitan RV Resort. If we’d been looking for a place to stop, that would likely have worked for me.
This road maintained by “Blenders in the Grass”. Cocktails on the lawn? A bar? Some neighborhood group? Sounds like an interesting group to me. Well read, anyway.
There don’t appear to be any Super WalMarts around here so we stopped at Vons for groceries. Dave says they are expensive and they only had half the things on our list.
Today’s street is “Santa Claus Lane.” I’m suddenly hearing Gene Autry singing “Here Comes Santa Claus.” Do you suppose the kids who live here expect him to come every day?
And what’s with that name anyway? I know it started with Saint Nicholas But think about it. We’re in California so we are used to seeing lots of saints names. San Francisco. San Pedro. Santa Maria. Santa Rosa. Santa Claus. Wait! Santa Claus is female?
In Ventura, California, where Highway 126 splits off from Highway 101, you go right to go left or left to go right. Is that clear?
We stopped at a mall. No, we are not doing Christmas shopping. Although stopping at a mall on Saturday this close to Christmas may not be the smartest move we’ve made lately, we do have chores that need to be done and it seems to make sense to do them while waiting for the generator place to reopen. So, we bought more groceries. And we bought the ribbons we are supposed to tie to our antenna if we go to the Escapees Class of ’08 gathering in Quartzsite, Arizona, next month. And we had KFC for lunch.
Then we went to McGrath State Beach to camp for the night. We figured we’d charged our batteries enough between the solar panels and the alternator working while driving to be able to get by without hookups again tonight. We’ll see how that works without being able to recharge using the generator.
TTYL,
Linda