After posting yesterday about our departure plans, I continued to check the internet for road conditions and weather cams. Our original plan included visiting some good friends in Tehachapi, traveling east along Highway 58. After reading about 6 inches of snow accumulation and predicted winds on Sunday of 40 plus miles per hour with gusts to 85! yes that is 85 mph, we thought we should possibly reroute. Next plan, instead of driving over 58 toward Laughlin, we could just stay south on 5, get through LA hooking up to the 210 and the 10 heading east and go straight to Borrego Springs, saving Laughlin for the latter part of the trip and skipping out on our visit to friends. That’s a bit sad since we haven’t seen them since 2007.
So, once again to weatherunderground.com and the web cams and the severe weather reports. What??!! 85 mph gusts at Bakersfield, Frazier Park, and 6 inches of snow possible over the Grapevine on Sunday??? Big Sigh.
Jeremy doesn’t care whether we are traveling or home, just as long as he can be warm and snooze.
So here I am this morning, in my jammies typing away on the computer instead of driving south to Redding as planned. We wrote all our friends along the route saying, nope, not this time. We are packed and mostly loaded, watching the weather. At first we thought we might wait until Monday, but looking a bit more closely led us to deciding on a Sunday departure. Yes, high winds and rain all the way to Sacramento tomorrow, but not 85 mph. We will hole up tomorrow night near Lodi, amble south on 5 toward the Grapevine and hole up again at a truck stop and wait to see what the road is doing on Monday morning. Sooner or later we are going to get to all that hot sun and warm temperatures that everyone is talking about, right?
One of the very best things about retirement and the RV life is the ability to re-route, re-plan, and stay flexible. Today, instead of driving, I am going to cook up a bunch of stuff for our trip that I hadn’t the opportunity to do last week. Today the house will be filled the the smell of pulled pork in the crock pot, some chocolate chip and some peanut butter cookies, a big pot of spaghetti sauce to freeze, and a luscious turkey pot pie with a biscuit topping made from some of our leftover freezer turkey. I won’t have to cook for a week while we are on the road!
When you do get to Tehachapi take a picture of the trains on the loop for me, I would love to get out there and see that someday. Have fun when the weather gets better. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna..
ReplyDeleteGood plan! Better safe than sorry. The weather here in Desert Hot Springs has even cooled down a bit as it's in the low 70's right now.
ReplyDeleteSorry you're delayed, but the food in the fridge/freezer will be really nice on the road. Reading about it makes me want to cook today, to! :) Drive safe tomorrow.
ReplyDeletePlan B and all of the home cooked food sounds great. I would not want to travel through bad weather.
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness, got all excited when u said u were coming this way! then, no, u weren't :( Yes friends are in Bear Valley, west of tehachapi @ 5000' and it is snowing now, he is an RV tech and already has my furnace up and running, so am toasty warm, but may b staying here longer than planned!!! They have a place right by their house so am all hooked up even!! 'cept no cable, sadness and despair :)
ReplyDeleteI love that catnap ~ and your plan sounds excellent! Ah, flexability!
ReplyDeleteWell darn...seems like the weather just won't cooperate. But stay safe above all else. Sooner or later spring will come.
ReplyDeleteMarch marks the changing of the seasons across the land so weather is always so unpredictable. Stay flexible & roll with Mother Nature's punches....
ReplyDeleteJello plans! At least you got a day to cook to make life easier on the road ... at least for a while. We'll be doing the same before our April trip ... cook up some stuff to take on the road :-)
ReplyDeleteYou may have to experience some rotten weather, but you sure won't starve! :)
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