Meandering the Country

February 5 – 8, 2022  Our final stay in California took us to one more of its beautiful national parks.  We broke up the trip from Palm Springs to Death Valley with an overnight in Barstow, staying at a KOA conveniently located right off of I-15.  Speaking of convenient, three miles down the road from the campground was Calico ghost town!  The year 1880 found this town bustling with prospectors searching for silver.  By 1887, it had 22 saloons, its own version of Chinatown, a red-light district and a school house.  Like most towns in the west, when the price of silver plummeted, Calico became a ghost town.  In the 1950’s, Walter Knott (as in Knott’s Berry Farm) was interested in turning the ghost town into a historical theme park.  He began the task of rebuilding the town on the building’s original sites.  For some reason, he ended up donating the town to the county in 1966.  It’s now a county park and a treasure for all to enjoy! Once w...

January 16 - February 4, 2022 Wow!  Palm Springs is pretty darn hard to find any fault in!  During winter, its temperatures are in the low 70’s for a high and mid 50’s for a low.  This makes for delightful days of being outdoors exploring as well as perfect temperature for a good night’s sleep.  There is a plethora of activities to do.  I truly believe we could stay here for a few years and still not see and do everything!  Many people must agree with me as the population of the area triples during the winter months.  Despite all of this, we did find a fault.  The San Andreas Fault!  I’ll talk more about that later! Palm Springs RV Resort was “home” during our time in the Palm Springs area. Frankie loved being able to be off leash and play frisbee in the open desert next to the RV park!  Here we found our first Costa’s Hummingbirds!   I hadn’t anticipated seeing any hummingbirds, but we decided to give it a try and put the feed...