Kicking Off Our 2024 Travel Season- On The Road Again

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Our plan was to leave home at 1100 hours after a quick cleanup. The Parks are once again house sitting so we gave them a quick review of all the little details that keeps our house functioning. At 1010 hours Jil loads the dogs in the RV which means we a leaving a little bit early.

The weather has been unusually hot for an extended period of time. Reno can get 100+ degree weather but it usually lasts a few days, not two weeks. We are lucky the RV has two roof A/C’s and a generator to power them as we travel. We head up US 395 towards Susanville CA where we will spend the night, then mosey on up to Collier State Park in Oregon for a couple of nights. Hopefully it will be cooler up there.

Well, Susanville is broiling at 106* when we arrive. Yowsers! We are fortunate that the office staff at Susanville RV Park has placed us close to the dog run and in the shade of a tree. The shade from the tree is definitely helping keep the inside of the RV cool!

Resident of the Susanville RV Park

We were invited to visit our neighbors Chris and Ron’s property in Susanville. We drove maybe 3 miles to their place and admired the hard work they’ve done to clean up the property. They also have a nice garden and a few fruits trees. It’s all very nice.

It’s said when the fireweed blossoms reach the top summer is over

Next day we drove a couple hundred miles to Collier State Park for a two night stay. The 242 fire of 2020 took out 400 acres of ponderosa pine trees. Many of those burned trees are still standing with many miraculously surviving. The campground is nice for walking our mutzos as there is lots of forest to explore as well as the Williamson River that runs right behind our campsite.

The Collier Logging Museum is across the street. It’s an outdoor museum that showcases very large logging equipment dating from the horse drawn days, to steam powered to the modern era of combustible fuel engines. It’s a one of a kind, must see museum.