The story I almost forgot to tell....

 7:56 am - Wednesday - April 22nd - Bishop, CA - 36° F, humidity 27%, cloud cover 17%, wind 6 mph out of the north by northwest.....mostly sunny today with a forecast high of 66° F.  On this date in 2025 TLE and I were overnighting at Fort Amargosa.....

....on our way north to Likely Place Golf & RV Resort for our 4th season.  We were just there yesterday!  The view this morning....

.....lots of snow on the Eastern Sierra this morning.  They got 8-9 inches at Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort....a lot for late April.

Before I begin today's post about Tuesday I feel compelled to relate a story from the day before we departed TWW.  As of Saturday morning (April 18th) I had been missing a 10 foot extension cord for about a week I use to power our Toro blower.  It was a minor thing, but I don't like losing stuff....does anyone?  Next I found I was missing a large Phillips head screw driver.  I remembered using it recently, but could not remember where.  I figured I'd come across it before we left TWW.  The final 'nail' in the coffin, so to speak, was I misplaced a hammer I was using that very morning to pull the spikes out of the ground which affixed the numerous artificial turf pieces we have.  I was trying to retrace my steps that morning, but could not find that hammer.  I have several hammers, so it's not a big deal, except I hate losing stuff.  Now the number of missing items had reached 3, and I was beginning to question my ability to function as a mature adult male....my memory seemed to be betraying me.  I told TLE about the missing stuff, so she could be on the lookout for any of those 3 things.

We had been talking about moving the two wheel chocks we have screwed into the trailer floor to show us where to stop when inserting the VW.  We used to have a bike rack on the back of the Beetle, but removed it last winter, and left it in the garage at TWW.  Without the bike rack we felt we could move the VW back 18-24".  We did some initial measurements of the VW, and then repositioned the two chalks.  Now it was the day before our departure, and we wanted to see how much more room would be available at the front of the trailer, so I suggested we walk over to the VW to measure from the middle of front tire to the very front of the car, and then mark the floor, so we knew how much room, for sure, that we had to begin stowing things in front.  We walked over the Beetle to do just that, and what do you know?  I found the Phillips head screw driver sitting on the top of the license plate.....doh!  Well, good, one of three things found.  We then walked over to the garage to get something, and as we were exiting I saw the missing extension cord hanging on the handle bars of one of our bicycles....cool....2 things found.  As we walked back to the trailer I, pointing at the roof top solar panels, told TLE we needed to stow them first thing in the morning.  As I glanced over at the roof top solar panels I saw the missing hammer resting on top of the stowed patio awning where I had left it earlier that morning.  So, within a 10 minute period I found all three items thereby regaining a little of the self confidence I had lost over the past few days....LOL!  TLE and I laughed for a few minutes.  My frustration turned into joy in just a few minutes!

Now, let's talk about Tuesday, okay?  High winds were forecast along our route Tuesday from mid morning on, so we had decided Monday evening that we would be on the road northbound no later than 7 am in order to be as near to Bishop as possible before the winds got over 20 mph.  All night long the winds blew, and when we awoke at 6 am to get ready to leave they were blowing quite hard, and we wondered if we should spend another day at Fort Amargosa.  I rechecked the forecast and saw the wind was out of the south, which meant we would have a tailwind for the first 160 miles of our 240+ mile driving day.  Within seconds we went from staying another night, to 'let's get dressed, and leave ASAP!  We were on the road by 6:40 am cruising north with a 25 mph tailwind....it doesn't get much better driving wise.....

....with a tailwind there is almost no wind noise, and you can hardly hear the big Detroit Diesel 6v92 purring at the rear of our Newell.  As the morning progressed we began to realize what a great driving day this would be.  With that tailwind the need to downshift on hills almost disappears, and all you find yourself doing is hanging onto the steering wheel, and enjoying the view.....

So many long, long stretches of straight highway with views stretching miles and miles into the distance

Soon the Eastern Sierras came into view with their snow capped peaks

....we passed through Beatty, Goldfield, and finally Tonopah where we took a 20 minute break before continuing our drive north to US-6, which would take us over the mountains to Bishop....

Beginning the long uphill on US-6

.....as we crested the summit around 10:30 am the wind hit us full force from the left side, then mostly head on for the final miles into Bishop, but that was only 47 miles out of 240+ miles we drove that day.  We arrived at Bishop RV Park (Tri County Fairgrounds) around 11:30 am, and were in our site for three days by noon time.  We have water and 30 amp electric, which usually means we have be careful what we turn on electrically, but  I bought this special adapter a few years ago to use specifically at Bishop RV Park.  They have rows of 30 amp receptacles enabling me to use two of them and boost our amperage from just 15 amps per leg to 30 amps per leg enabling us to NOT worry about overloading either circuit.  We rarely use 20 amps per leg at a time, so this adapter allows us to live 'normally'....

There are about eight 30 am plugs I can plug into, and with very few people here it is not problem

The 50 amp plug from the Newell plugs into the adapter just like a pedestal

.....rain was forecast for late Tuesday in Bishop and it came right on schedule.  It didn't last long, but it was nice to hear rain our our aluminum room again.  While it only rained for a short while here it snowed up at Mammoth Lakes for 8 hours, so I would imagine when we head up Sherwin Grade Friday morning we will still see some snow on the ground.

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