We once again decided to cut our state park visit short, this time by only one night though.
Looking at a map of California it appears that the distance between Wright's Beach campground and our next stop is about 150-miles. That is about twice as far as I like to drive when towing THE POD.
The problem is that we can't continue much further north on CA-1 from here because the road narrows, the turns become tighter and the shoulders all but disappear. None of that sounds like somewhere I want to tow a 28' trailer.
So what does all that mean? It means we'll have to backtrack 10-miles south on CA-1 and cross over the coastal mountains on a road that has less sharp turns and wider lanes with shoulders. That automatically extends the trip by 20-miles, plus we are no longer going north at a diagonal which added mileage to today's re-route.
Instead of driving nearly 250-miles we left a day early, found a campsite about halfway between our two destinations and threw in a visit to a Costco that now appears on our route.
By the way, Costco had gas for $5.09 a gallon, that's cheaper than we've seen in California for over a month! Are your gas prices going back down too?
Rather than crawling our way around the tight corners of CA-1 at 20MPH, we moved inland to US-101 for our 100-miles of 55MPH journey north.
Our batteries are fully charged so we didn't even plug into the electricity.
No more coin operated (25¢ for 2-minutes) state park showers for me, or $10 dump stations.
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