From Summer, to Spring, to Winter....we're going backwards!

 7:53 am - Wednesday - April 13th - Likely, CA - 30° F (feels like 21° F), humidity 71%, wind 10 mph out of the southwest.....heavy cloud cover, and light snow flurries right now with a forecast high today of 34° F.  On this date in 2012 TLE and I were exploring the Savannah River Front in Savannah, GA......↴

It is beginning to feel like TLE and I have been transported to 'Bizarro World', a fictional planet from the Superman Comics where everything is opposite of that on Earth....in Bizaro World earth is spelled backwards....htrae...everything is the opposite of life here on earth, and that applies to the seasons....we have gone from Summer (Fontana, CA), to Spring (Bishop, CA), to Winter (Likely, CA) in less than 5 days.

Tuesday morning brought a clearing of the skies, bright sunshine, and temps below 20° F.  We had our three electric heaters going, as well as the Suburban gas furnace in the salon to make our Newell interior habitable.  I looked out the front windshield to see ice on the VW windshield, and I'm thinking "How can TLE drive the VW into the trailer if she can't see?".  Well, once the morning sun crested the mountains to our east and hit the VW the ice was gone in minutes......

.....I could also see a fresh layer of snow upon the mountains to the west which form the Tahoe Basin....

....eventually the sun did come over the mountains to the east, and our environment began to improve significantly......

Sun.....at last...we are saved....lol!

....we had the VW inserted into the trailer by 8 am, and were rolling our wheels out of the Tahoe-Douglas Elks Lodge just after that.  Our first stop was to take on diesel at the local Maverick at the intersection of Nevada-88, and US-395.....121 gallons in all at a cost of $584.  Thank goodness that will be the last time we 'pay the rent' until next October.

Within 20 minutes we were descending into the Reno, NV basin, and could see downtown in the distance.....

.....traveling through Reno on US-395 is not one of my favorite things as the concrete road is rough, and uneven, there is always some construction underway, and traffic is usually heavy....at least the traffic was not heavy at 9 am Tuesday.  Of course, once you descend into the Reno basin, you must climb out of it, and for the next 30 minutes that is what we did.  As we passed Bordertown, the last chance to buy 'cheap' (cheap is a very relative term these days) diesel, we knew the California border was just a few minutes away.

The drive north on US-395 was beautiful Tuesday, and looks much the same as it did when traveled south back in mid October of 2021......lots of snow on the local mountains..... 

.....as we drove further north we were pleased to see little snow, and a virtually empty US-395....

.....US-395 is not a flat road, and we crossed over several summits where there was snow, and some brief snow flurries....in the picture below we are making our final descent into Modoc County, and our home for the next 6 months.....not very auspicious weather....lol.....

....Likely, CA sits at 4,447' elevation, and at that elevation you can get almost any kind of weather in April.  Just last week it was in the 80's here, and now, as we arrive, the temperature is in the mid 30's.  As we neared Likely we began to see signs for Likely Place RV & Golf Resort.....

.....and, eventually, the small town of Likely, CA came into view.....

......Likely Place sits about 2 miles out of town, and the entrance is just the beginning of a longish 2 mile drive into the golf course through pastureland.....

....finally, about 1:20 pm, we arrived at the main office for the resort, and found Dennis Tate, our manager, awaiting our arrival. After a brief conversation he got in his pickup and led us to our site (#55), and home for the next 6 months.  At first the site looked too small for our equipment, but after TLE and I spent about 10 minutes discussing how we would situate the Newell and trailer we began the process of removing the VW and the artificial turf from the trailer.  Once that was done TLE helped me back the trailer into its cubby hole where we dropped it, and then backed the Newell into her spot.  Once everything was in its place we were quite happy with our site after all.....

....the Newell is facing northeast, which means we'll get some morning sun on the front of the Newell when there is sun again....lol....and we have a nice view of the surrounding area.....we are kind of on a high point in the RV park.....

.....once I got the utilities hooked up (water, electric and sewer) I headed inside to warm my extremities....it was somewhere around 32° F.  To prevent our water supply from freezing I used our heated hose, which we last had connected to the Newell back in Seal Rock, OR....I did not think we were going to need it again this soon.

Once we were settled Dennis came by to pick me up and take me on a tour of the golf course, and RV park.  The land upon which this 7,000 yard golf course and RV park reside is about 550 acres, and there is a perimeter road around the entire golf course.  It is a beautiful golf course with wide fairways.  There is one par 5 hole which is 680 yards in length.....that one will be hard to reach in 3 strokes....lol.

The golf course and RV park officially open this Saturday, April 16th, and that will be our first day of work.  TLE and I will take time to familiarize ourselves more with the park, and local community in the intervening days, along with getting settled into our site.  There will be yard lights....lol!!!

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