We had a leisurely start to the day, after breakfast we packed up the trailer and moved out under high overcast skies and 22°C. The first part of the journey was along windy roads that climbed up a few hundred feet. Enough to keep the driver concentrating! After about 30 miles we joined Hwy 101. This alternated between 4 line divided highway and narrow twisty 2 lane parts. There were also a number of steep, twisty hills as we drove up and down between 200 and 2000 ft.
We passed through a number of valley, full of vineyards
Once we got north of grape country we headed into heavily forested areas
Then finally the redwoods.
Unfortunately the trip took about an hour longer than planned; I was planning on averaging 55 MPH, but the hills and California’s 55 MPH limit on trailers dropped the average down to around 43 MPH.
We arrived at the campground about 4:15, it is far better than the previous one! We got the trailer set up, then I headed out to set up the satellite dish… a mistake. I had forgotten how to use the meter, we finally got a weak signal which we tweaked enough to get a watchable picture. Usually we a 95-99 strength on the received signal, today we were getting 75. At least is was watchable! When I got back into the trailer I looked out at the dish and realised there was a metal lamp standard directly in front of the dish!!