Monday, November 4, 2013 (Alturas, CA)

We woke up to no snow and dry roads, yahoo.  Now our prayer is that it stays dry for the rest of the day so we don't get deicer all over our 5er.

We got packed up and were ready to hit the road around 10:15 a.m.  Today will be a longer travel day than we normally travel.  We like to keep our travel days to around 2-3 hours, which from Bend would put us in the Lakeview area, but there are not a whole lot of RV parks around Lakeview so our goal is to get to Alturas, CA.

While Rich was working at ODOT the last 18 years, Lakeview was one of the locations he supported, so he has driven that stretch of road many many times and is very familiar with it.  Once we got past Lakeview, it was new scenery for the both of us.  We had a very pleasant drive with sunny to partly cloudy skies but no moisture from the sky or on the road all the way to Alturas.  We drove straight through with no stops and made it to Alturas around 2:30 p.m. 

Sullys RV Park, Alturas, CA

Sully's RV Park was a good place for a one night stop.  There wasn't much to the town and we paid the highest diesel prices yet - $4.41/gal.  yikes.  There wasn't much around, so other than getting set up and going and fueling up the truck, we just stuck around the 5er.  Once the sun went down, it got cold outside, so cold that we couldn't leave our outside water connection attached to the 5er.  Lucky for us, we have a well insulated RV so we stayed nice and warm. 

We had a nice dinner at home and watched a movie and called it a night.  We'll be hitting the road again in the morning.