Define Jello Plan....

 7:03 am - Tuesday - October 14th - Bishop, CA - 44° F, humidity 80%, wind 18 mph out of the south by southeast.....heavy cloud cover, rain forecast from now until 7 pm....forecast high is 47° F.  On this date in 2021 TLE and I (and our 1982 Newell) had just boarded the Clinton/Mukilteo Ferry.....

.....from Whidbey Island to Seattle.  The view this morning.....

.....the same view yesterday.....

I've been using the phrase 'Jello plan' a lot lately, and I'm going to use again today.  Our Jello plan for Monday was to leave Bishop to head south about an hour's drive to Lone Pine where that same 'Jello plan' called for us to overnight at Diaz Lake just south of that town before finishing our journey to SoCal to see our kids.  Why only travel an hour before stopping?  That's a good question, and I'll answer it.  The distance from Bishop to the Fontana/Rialto Elks Lodge is over 250 miles, which is way beyond our preferred driving distance in one day, plus at the end of that day we'll be driving in congested SoCal traffic to finish the drive.  Not our favorite scenario, but we've done it many times over the years.  This time I suggested stopping over in Lone Pine to make the final drive to SoCal a more manageable 180, which is a little over 3 hours of driving for us.

So, that was the 'Jello plan', until I looked at the weather forecast Monday morning for Tuesday, which was for rain beginning at 2 am Tuesday morning until 7 pm Tuesday evening.  We don't, as a practice, begin a day driving in the rain, or wind, so that would mean spending another day at Diaz Lake with zero hookups (no power, or water) with no sun to reenergize our house batteries, and no opportunity to enjoy the outdoors.  On top of that high winds were also forecast for Tuesday.  On top of that heavy rain is forecast for SoCal Tuesday afternoon, the day we would have been arriving.  Once I relayed this information to TLE it became apparent she would rather stay right here at the Tri County Fairgrounds for two more days, then drive the final 250+ miles to Fontana on Wednesday in nice, sunny weather.

For those readers who haven't been following our travels for the past 13 years, and aren't familiar with the term 'Jello plan' let me explain.  As nomads who change our view on a regular basis we've had to adopt a less rigid form of travel planning to account for the vagaries of full time travel such as weather, change in plans, mechanical issues, etc.  We call those plans 'written in Jello plans', or 'Jello plans' in short.  Whatever we have planned must be flexible enough to add, or subtract a day of travel once and a while to allow for weather, etc.  We try, mostly successfully, not to commit to time sensitive destinations.  We've already had to make allowances for weather on this current journey when we remained in Gardnerville for an extra day due to high winds along our route, and now we're staying an extra two days in Bishop due to rain, and wind.

Since it had been a week since we left LPG&RVR, and we would be here another two days it was time to empty our black tank.  Since there is no dump station at the Tri County Fairgrounds I checked online to find a local dump station, and found there was one at the Speedway Fuel Station on the south side of Bishop, so once all of our neighbors had finally departed around 10 am making it possible for us to exit our site, we headed directly there to do the deed, and then returned to the fairgrounds for another two days.  We were there and back in less than an hour.

Once we were setup in our new site we spent the rest of the day reading, and watching news about the Peace deal in the middle east.  As the afternoon progressed the clouds began to roll into the Owens Valley portending the forecast rain for Tuesday, and around 3 am this morning (Tuesday) the rain began.  TLE took our leftovers from our early dinner at Whiskey Creek, and turned them into a nice salad.  

We watched the first game of the NLCS between the Dodgers and Brewers pretty much from the beginning.  The game was played in Milwaukee, and was a close game (1-0 in favor of the Dodgers) late into the game.  The Dodgers added a run in the 8th inning on a bases loaded walk forcing in the run for a 2-0 lead.  In the bottom of the 9th inning the Brewers got a run, but fell short when the final batter struck out swinging at a high fast ball with bases loaded.  The Dodgers never make it easy....lol!

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