Traveling to Santa Barbara

Last night we stayed about 15 miles east of Kingman, AZ at the Blake Ranch RV park. It was a decent place, but kinda in the middle of nowhere. We rented the movie "The Interpreter", starring Nicole Kidman from the office. It was a very good movie, considering it was the only DVD they had other than "Legally Blonde".

Today we were going to stay at a Wal-Mart in Barstow, CA, but within 5 minutes of parking, some drug addict hit us up for money and food. That, in addition to the skanky people milling about, convinced us to check out the nearby campground. It was even skankier, and limited to RV's under 36' (ours is 38'). So....we decided to trust our guts and moved on. We traveled about 40 miles south to Victorville where we found a very nice (and gated) RV park that was a bit pricey at $30, but better than some sceary Wal-mart parking lot.

I talked to my aunt Caroline tonight who offered a space on her property in Santa Ynez for our RV. I called the RV park where we were going to stash our RV in Santa Barbara (at a whopping $50/night) and cancelled our reservation. I'm sure we'll have to pay a one night cancellation fee, but it's still better than the $300 it would have cost us to stay there for 6 nights. Even though it's a bit further, we still only have about 180 miles to travel tomorrow. We're hoping to get an early start.