Author: harrylange

Pleasant Valley, Hwy 410 – Friday August 21, 2020

Site 9, Garcia’s are across the road in site 10.

We are here for 9 days this year. We had planned a family camp at Kaner Flat 12 miles down the road August 21 to 25 for my birthday May 31 I turned old 70.

Then move to Salmon Cove for Jeff’s group camping trip. A couple of months ago we got a notice that Kaner Flats was not going to open this year and Jeff got a notice that Salmon Cove was not going to open either. We were able to get these reservations for August 21 to 30 and many of the people from Jeff’s group moved to Pleasant Valley. The Covid and weather (fire ban) reduced Jeff’s family groups down to four and us from 14. For us it ended up working out for the best because the Little Naches road to Kaner Flats was closed because of fire at the top of the ridge. Things have sure changed over the years. We have camped at Kaner Flats with fire half way up the valley and helicopters picking up water in the pond just west of the campground. While we were at Pleasant Valley the 17 sites were no more than 2/3’s full on the weekend and two other sites during the week. All the reservable sites had reservation signs on them and no one showed. Covid and weather probably biggest factors. Lot of people will not go camping if they can not have a campfire. Mel and Laura had reservations for three nights but they didn’t come because of all the fires in California and they didn’t want to leave their home.

Richland Wa, Wednesday June 17, 2020

We are at the Garcia’s for the next month. Tri-cities area is still in phase 1 of the Covid so the RV park is still on restricted usage. We are lucky because we already had reservations for a month. The original was to be here so Mike and Tanya could fly back east to one of Mike’s shipmates wedding on June 19. The wedding got canceled but we kept the month long reservations. You can stay at the park for one night or for over 30 nights. In phase one Covid their is no recreational camping in the area. Thus we’ll be here for a while.

Map and campsite pictures, site 137.

Big House Enumclaw – Trip Summary – Wednesday May 6, 2020

Trip wrap up, we drove to Goodyear and returned on the same route. We did spend an extra month at Goodyear while the whole country was locked down and we had no place to go. At the RV park in Goodyear we could get out and walk everyday, half of the people in the park left on April 1.

Motorhome 3101 miles
Pick – up 1741

Gas Prices
High $3.20 – Bakersfield, CA – February 11, 2020
Low $1.80 – Arizona-California Boarder – May 2, 2020
Avg $2.49
472 gallons (coach only)

Gas Price from February to May

Feb       May    
$2.54    $1.84   Pilot North of Salem, OR
$2.59     $1.99   7 Feather’s Casino, OR
$2.94      $2.54   Pilot Dunnigan, CA 
$3.20      $2.30   Pilot Bakersfield, CA
$2.70       $1.80   Pilot Arizona-California Boarder

Our 2020 Spring travels,