Old Orchard RV Park

Forry as he pulled out into the center of the circle this morning...




And starts the drive around...

And goes along the backside of the inner circle road until he's back at the entrance:

We've stayed at the Old Orchard RV Park in Orland, California several times. It's nice traveling distance from Seven Feathers and it's a nice size. It truly has an orchard in the middle of it. It's the only RV park we have ever seen that is laid out in a circle. You pull into your RV site from the road on the outside of the circle and when you leave you pull into the road on the inside of the circle, go around and out (therefore every site is a pull-through!). It's run by a couple of very nice people. You can walk from the RV Park to a nice restaurant or to a TacoTime.

Today we drove on Interstate 5 as far as Sacremento, then switched over to California Highway 99. We've discovered on previous trips that both diesel and RV parks are hard to find on this stretch of I-5, most of them are over on 99. It's a four lane road -- occasionally six -- but isn't a freeway as there is access across it quite frequently.

When we drove through this area last May, the oleanders in the center median were gorgeous in their array of pink, red and white blooms. This time of year they are looking a bit worn and tattered. And a good share of the miles we drove today could certainly use some crews of litter gatherers -- or else a lot less litterers!

We came as far as Tulare, California this afternoon. We're staying at a place called Sun & Fun RV Park. It's again a small RV park with about 60 sites. In contrast to the grass and trees of last night, this place is all asphalt and cement with a large cement fence surrounding it. The further south you get in California, the pricier the RV parks seem to be. This one is costing us twice as much as last night even with our Escapee discount. Its brochure talks about its pool and spa -- but like most we've seen down here, the pool is outside and NOT heated!

I'm cranky anyway! It was almost five when we got settled in and fairly dark (and the light on the post behind our RV is burned out...). Darned if I didn't discover that somewhere in the hooking up the electric process, I had stepped in some dog doodoo! I intensely despise lazy dog owners who don't pick up behind their pets! It really made my day to have to clean up dog excrement from inside of Auntie Violet -- and she wasn't happy either!