Took the Runner on a long drive to Yucaipa, Anaheim then to Joshua Tree for a long weekend. I get a rattle under acceleration I am thinking it’s probably a pulley or just the crappy belts I used. Averaged 17.9mpg loaded. We filled up the Jerry cans in AZ because the gas was over $1 cheaper per gallon. Overall a lot of fun! The wife says my tires are too small I couldn’t decide if i should be insulted or excited...
Loaded up the fridge and got it cooling.
We stayed at Jumbo Rocks, set up camp then explored, enjoyed bouldering and watching the sunset.
It was extremely windy. The OzTent RV-4 didn’t even budge. Super impressed with the tent.
Enjoyed some coffee in the morning..
Some pros: We really enjoyed Joshua tree even though we only had a day. We are going back after the wife is out of PT school. We also learned a little about ourselves and how we are going to camp in the future. Someone stopped and admired the storage I built in the Runner, we talked about “overlanding” which was fun and informative.
Cons: I hate being negative but a particular type of foreign tourist family pretty much helped themselves to our campsite. kept waking through, tripping on our guy ropes looking in our tent. They didn’t seem to care even after I asked them what they were doing. They quickly left once i started recording them...
The ladies next to us were the older know it all elitist campers, one of which i don’t think ever stopped talking....EVER. She talked for 20 minutes about this hot chocolate she has that’s just the best. I noticed they had an AZ license plate and deduced that they were either elitists from Scottsdale or Sedona.
Overall I think we are done with campgrounds. We talked about it the drive home and both of us agreed on future plans to make ourselves 100% self sustained.
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