San Diego Zoo

Planning to go to the Zoo, Old Town and Hard Rock’s today but the Zoo trip was all the walking I had in me so cancelled the Old Town tour. The Zoo was unbelievably hard to find!! You would think that something that big and famous would be marked on the highways! After an hour of driving around we finally found it and not that impressed.  A lot of the pens were empty or would have only 1 animal sleeping back in the far corner. I did get a lot of exercise though, a very large zoo! From there we went to look for Hard Rock’s, which of course, wasn’t easy to locate either. Bruce finally found it and even got a free parking spot up front! Left there around 6 pm so managed to get into the rush hour traffic but it moved along pretty good. Had to drive around to find some WiFi we could borrow for a bit to check emails, bills, etc. Back to the RV, walk around the park circle and had Stacy check on the weather for us. Still talking about high winds coming in so still not sure if we’ll be able to leave tomorrow.

Thousand Trails - Pio Pico, California

We had made reservations with Thousand Trails at Pio Pico for 25th-28th so packed up and went about 30 miles or so east through some pretty country side to get to a pit of an RV camp! We were greeted by a salesman who told us to pick any empty site we wanted but they were close together and the campground was pitiful! We told them we were not interested in staying there even 1 day, and it was free for the whole 3 nights! We came back to the Sweetwater Regional RV Park and she let us drive around to pick which site we wanted. We picked 51 which is a lot more level and plan on staying until Tuesday. Went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things and to get a new coffee pot as the other one broke on our bumpy trip. Went back into Coronado for pizza and to see the sites at night. The weather report isn’t looking too good for Tuesday – high wind warnings so plans might have to be changed.

Sweetwater Regional Park - San Diego, California

Up at 7 am to pack and make our way toward California. Thought we might stay in Yuma but it was a very windy day so sand was all in the air, not a pretty site so kept on driving. The 1st part of California was pretty cool, sand dunes everywhere! Had a lot of RV-Toy Haulers with ATVs for playing on the sand. After leaving the sand we got into the mountains and did the temperature drop and the mountains were made of big boulders. Just boulders, like God had gathered them up and made big piles of rocks. Was very interesting terrain!

Sweetwater Regional Park, San Diego, CA

The San Diego area has a lot more mountains than I expected. I had found a County Park that was close to town so called and made reservations and a good thing that I did that too. Sweetwater Park only had 2 sites open so we got site 48. Thought we be there by 5:30ish but it was closer to 7 so got to set up in the dark which I hate doing. The site was not very level so the front had to be jacked up pretty high. We had not eaten yet, stressed for the drive and terribly home sick – had a minor meltdown. We ate a little then took a stroll around the park. It’s about a half mile circle with backins on the outside and double layers pull throughs on the inside of the circle. Horse back riding must be popular as most of the outside circle sites had pens for horses. It’s up on a hill so we can see the valley below.