A relatively uneventful day.
After a cold night with temps in the 40's we awake to another beautiful
morning. We've had our 4 nights at
Snowflower Resort and are backtracking 67 miles down beautiful CA 20 to Oregon
House. It's an easy drive - although
there's a drop of almost 4000ft in altitude there are no really steep
stretches. I take it easy to spare the
brakes on the RV and use turnouts to allow faster drivers to pass us.
We're soon passing Nevada
City and coming into Grass
Valley. The car, now in tow, is almost out of gas and
the RV is down to a quarter of a tank. I
had hoped we could get back to Nevada
before buying gas since the taxes in California
make it much more expensive here. The RV
might make it, but since we have to go over a 7000ft mountain pass before we
find civilization in Nevada we
don't want to risk it. The car we could
fill up tomorrow as long as it could drive the 12 miles from Lake of the
Springs to the nearest gas station, but that also might be nail biting. Gas at the top of the Sierras was $4.19 a
gallon, high even for CA.
So we stop in Grass
Valley. This is no easy task. Even though we're near the highway the gas
stations aren't too big and are very busy.
Plus which the locals have no appreciation of how much space a 36ft RV
needs to turn. We do eventually get both
vehicles fueled although Vicky has to speak firmly to someone in a pick-up truck
who has come up so close behind me that I can't get out without hitting him, and
who wants to know "If we're going to take all day?".
Other than that, and some continuing construction work after
Grass Valley, we have no problems getting to the resort and are delighted to
get the same site we had a few days ago.
We head to the post office to pick up a spring for the stabilizer that
has been mailed to us to replace one that failed, check out the almost
non-existent town of Dobbins and go
for a walk. No sign of the deer we
encountered last week or any of its relatives.
We have 4 nights here, resting in the foothills. This is a really peaceful spot and we really
enjoy the tranquility.
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