1st 2 nights will be Baton Rouge and San Antonio

We were going to try to get coast to coast in four days - it's a 40 hour journey so it's doable. But we sure wouldn't see much doing that...and we may burn ourselves out.

Although our Itinerary Includes Grand Canyon, Lake Havasu, Yosemite, San Francisco and Denver we first have to get to LA and then Mammoth Lakes for a week.

So instead we are stopping more often and taking 5 days to get to the Long Beach/Los Angeles area.

The first stop we are making after 9 hours of driving is to a regional park called Farr Park Equestrian Center and RV campground in Baton Rouge or Red Stick as Mike calls it.

It doesn't really have amenities other than hookups to water and electric and is only $20/night.  It has stables and horseback riding -something I have been promising Jamie for ages AND it's on the banks of the Great Mississippi River!

So Jamie and I will be riding horses that next morning while Mike is packing up the RV to head out to our second stop in San Antonio Texas to a KOA which will take us 7 hours or so. Now I was counting on this one to have pool and all amenities including WIFI but some of the reviews are complaining about the spotty Wifi which will annoy me. I just may send an email ahead stressing we need a strong signal.

After all I will need to be handling my Real estate business while on the road so I need some Wifi probably more often than not. We may just have to invest in some extra phone power somehow.

We are off to the West Coast NEXT FRIDAY!

So we were sitting at our church auction watching the price of the week in Georgia going higher and higher. We had wanted to bid and get a week in a Georgia Mountain cabin we had heard so much about but the bid went up too high.

I shrugged and said to Mike "Maybe nobody will bid on the week in Mammoth Lakes California. The opening bid is $300- should we do it?"

So we did and nobody else bid on it and it was ours! Now to plan...

Airfare was out - it would be about $2100 just for the tickets and then we would need to rent a car. And we wanted to see the country!

So we looked into buyer a pop-up trailer - We found one for $999. It was old but seemed sound except the tires of course as it had sat in a driveway for years. But we discovered our van could barely pull it and us and there would be no room for stuff. And we have lots of stuff.

So we were looking into tent camping. We were going to buy the tent, mattresses and gear needed. We knew it would be tough but more affordable then motels every night. We knew that setting up the tent every night on the way there would be a hassle...

That week we mentioned to a church friend we were going to tent camp to the west coast and back and she said "You need to take our RV!!" Oh boy we weren't expecting that!!

It's a cute Winnebago View that has a bed over the cab, a bed where the slide-out pops out and a bed at the table.

So our week at a California Condo has morphed into a cross-country trip! Westward Ho!