Grass Valley, CA

Redwoods and Douglas Fir trees dominate much of the landscape.
We passed miles of these piers. Notice the lockable gate at left.

This was the place where they have cabins to rent and you have to cross a foot bridge to get there.
There are lots of pretty lakes.


We can’t get a satellite signal at our campground so we are posting this at a coffee house. We should be on the road again Wednesday. Saturday we took a 120 mile scenic drive. We took highway 49 north and east and came back on 89, 80 and 20. It was a great day. Our Miata is really at home on twisting mountain roads and it was a lot of fun to drive. We came across a place where you can rent cabins, but you have to walk across a foot bridge to get there. You park your car and grab an industrial version of a little red wagon and put your luggage in it to get across the river. While we were there we also noticed a mining claim posted. This is something we don’t usually see in Indiana. Before we left on the drive we went to a farmer’s market beside us at the campground we bought a loaf of garlic bread and some really good toasted French bread. They sliced French bread thin then put butter and garlic on it and toasted it. It is addictive!

Friday we visited DeMartini here in Grass Valley, CA. We bought our coach from their dealership in Wakarusa, IN. Their sales and service departments here in Grass Valley are at two different locations and both are quite crowded. They are having a new building constructed that will house both sales and service. We saw it from the road and it looks very nice.

Friday night we went to a model of the temple in the Old Testament. It was at the fairground right next to where our RV is parked. We walked to it in a minute. It is a full sized replica of the portable temple used in the desert after the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt. It was informative to hear how they did the sacrifices and also how everything in the temple points to Christ. We just never know what we will see next!

Our neighbors include a man who lives in Mexico and is will be headed back shortly, a Canadian couple who are very nice to talk to. He has dual citizenship in the USA and Canada and has to go back to Canada every 6 months to keep his Canadian health care active. Often campgrounds have a host. This person is in charge when the office is closed and has various duties such as making sure campers have paid and so forth. Most campgrounds give us a paper to place in our windshield that had our checkout date written in marker. We are staying at the fairgrounds here in Grass Valley and they gave us a small round sticker that we put on a tail light. The host told us that it rains every day all winter here – no exceptions – and get this – it never rains all summer – no exceptions. Interesting. We are here before winter I guess because it hasn’t rained yet.

Our mattress is the standard variety and is getting a few lumps already so we called Monaco and they are upgrading us to a sleep number mattress for a very fair price. Monaco has been good to us. Yesterday at DeMartini, Lonnie a service manager warned us to deflate the mattress to 20 PSI while traveling in the mountains or the mattress could burst from the thin air. We have noticed plastic bags of food expand and pop or water bottles have more pressure at high altitudes, but hadn’t thought of the mattress.