Leaving Brookings we chose to do something we don’t normally do. We did 3 solid days of driving to have an extra few days in Vegas. The first day was absolutely exhausting. While my anxiety while riding in the car is getting better it is not fully fixed yet – and that first days curvy, winding, mountain filled road with several one lane construction areas put it all to the test for me. We had looked at the route the night before so we were prepared that we were going to be going through some national forest land and that it was curvy. However, we were not prepared for the several times we had to stop for one lane roads under construction. The last one we were at the flagman told us we’d want to kill our engine it was going to be a while – so we did. About 5 minutes later another work crew truck came up along side to talk to the flagman and we heard them say the pilot car taking people through the construction area had taken off and they weren’t sure when they would be back. We ended up sitting at this one for almost a half hour.
That drive took us through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest and the scenery – when you could enjoy it between curves and construction was gorgeous. We saw several areas where fire damage was evident on the trees. It was the first time I’d ever seen so much fire damage in person. We crashed our first travel night at a cute little private RV park just off of the highway we were traveling. After so many dry and drought ridden areas the green of the little yards at this campground was pretty refreshing to us.
Our second travel day was much smoother mostly down I-5 in California where we stopped near the Sequoia National Park area for a night. It was a cute little KOA and a nice place to rest for the night. Inside the map of the park and the information about the area and saw that there was a pizza place that delivered to the campground. After a long 2 days of driving – pizza was exactly what we needed that night. We streamed some cooking shows – our favorite to watch and had pizza – a relaxing night that was definitely needed.
Day three traveling to Las Vegas was the longest for driving distance it went very uneventfully through some gorgeous scenery along the edge of the Mohave National Preserve. We weren’t expecting some of the mountains and views that we encountered on that leg of our trip. We hit busy traffic when we got to Vegas and got to the KOA there just about 8 miles off of the Strip and just collapsed. We had a cute site with a “paw pen” – we had a patio with furniture and a pergola and a little pen for the pups to hang out in off leash right at our site. We spent our first night there decompressing and getting ready for a show we had tickets for on Sunday.
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