Our reservation was up at Emerald Cove today. But the weather service said today would not be a good day to move.
Heavy rain, flash floods, gusty winds. None of those make for good RV driving. Especially down US Highway 95 from Earp, California, where Emerald Cove is located to Blythe, California, where we would fill our diesel tank at the Flying J before turning east on I-10 towards Quartzsite, Arizona. US 95 has pretensions to being a roller coaster with many dips across dry wash areas and there was no way we were going to be able to turn around instead of drown if we came to one.
So we moved yesterday instead. We can’t get into our next park until Sunday so we are spending two nights once again boondocking in the desert using that diesel fuel to run our generator for electricity.
About 6 am I heard very heavy rain falling and was glad we were not driving in that. About 8 am I heard thunder and was glad we were not hitching up our car in that. Not that we would have been doing either of those things at that time of day anyway, but you know what I mean.
So, this is the view out our windows this morning.
In the open desert we tend to park alongside some brush to give us a sense of place and to keep us out of roads which are mostly unmarked and can go any which way. Of course the brush only grows where water flows. So last night we parked near a dry wash. This morning it looks like this.
We don’t expect to get enough rain for the flowing water to come too close to us.
So, here we are in the the desert again. We have no problems with dust this time, though.
TTYL,
Linda
Been there, done that. At least the storm at “Q” won’t be as bad as it was last year when you were there.
I remember that big rain last year! Glad you are safe.
Even here at Emerald Cove, the roads were flooded and the closer to the river you are even though it looked dry, you would sink because the base is just sand. Even after 12 hours with no rain there is still a lot of standing water.