Lighthouse Cove RV Park

Crescent City, CA • Elevation: 12 feet

We were about 20 feet from the Pacific Ocean . . . and about the same distance from a family circus . . .

We spent two nights here.

River’s Edge RV Park

Rio Del, CA • Elevation: 99 feet

The campground has 30A electrical service and a laundry which we used. We’re here for 4 days in a spot facing the Eel River.

This was a campground designed for Flirt . . .

How Campsites are Numbered . . .

I couldn’t find a campsite map anywhere online nor at the campground itself when we arrived. So here’s the poop . . .

Shelter Cove RV Park & Deli

Shelter Cove, CA • Elevation: 60 ft

That’s a first – “deli” as part of an RV park’s title, but it was good, especially the fish & chips.

However, the 24-mile road into the park was, well, problematic. Our 31-foot Class A (without towing a car) is as big as I’d suggest on this road. Here’s my review from RV Life:

First, let’s talk about the road into the campground that’s giving the willies to a lot of reviewers. Well, I wouldn’t want to drive our former 40-foot Newmar towing a Jeep over this road. However, our current 31-foot Class A (Honda CRV toad detached) did just fine. While the road was challenging in spots, my wife and I have driven far worse. That said, the most problematic road element was elevation change. The road starts at 350 feet or so and ends at 65 feet, but along the way elevation goes up to 2100 feet and then rapidly back down again. Hard on the brakes. We stayed in site RV12 facing the Pacific. Wonderful! We had full hookups with 30A electric. The campground deli is very good (loved the fish & chips) and the park’s staff was friendly and helpful. We camped at Shelter Cove RV Park & Campground in a Motorhome.

Camping next to a small airport was kind of a treat. Small single-engine planes landed everyday, usually just one or two, but a half dozen on the weekend. Fun to watch.

But just being able to watch the waves and the moonlight on the Pacific Ocean from inside our motorhome was the best.

THE WEATHER BACK HOME IN MARIPOSA VS THE PACIFIC COAST (Whitehorn, CA)

2024 Summer RV Trip

We just started our 43-day Summer RV trip up the California, Oregon, and Washington coasts.

Our first stop was the McClure Point Campground for 3 days. Temps have been triple-digit for all the days so we’ve been trapped inside our RV except for early mornings and late evenings.

Winter Repairs & Upgrades

It’s been a few months – 7 to be exact since the last post.

Here’s what has been going on . . . but first, here’s the April snow we had today:

PROPANE FURNACE REPAIRED

During our final campground stays last year, our propane heater began making loud whining noises. So much so that we could no longer use it to heat our RV. Not good.

After some research discovered that our furnace fan was kaput. Luckily, the fix seemed straightforward – just replace the fan motor.

Removing the Fan Cover and the Heater Fan was a piece of cake.

Luckily, it was MUCH easier to install the new fan motor and then to put everything back together again.

After a few seconds of running the fan, the furnace ignites, and all is quiet. Success.

GENERATOR FIXED

On our long cross-country trip to the Midwest we had to rely on our dash air conditioner to keep us cool during the hot summer days. We were unable to use the RV’s rooftop AC units because they need to be powered from either an external power or our generator.

Unfortunately we had removed our generator before we left because it wasn’t working.

This made for some VERY uncomfortable driving during parts of our trip, especially in the southwest.

Determined to fix our generator, we had it reinstalled in our RV. It still didn’t work, but at least the “heavy lifting” was done.

After some lengthy investigating, we found out that the generator fuel line was clogged. We couldn’t clear the blockage and it would have been very, very expense to replace the fuel line.

What to do?

Install a new fuel tank. Seems obvious but it was the last thing we wanted to do. However, it worked:

NEW WINDOW BLINDS INSTALLED

One of our three window shades became unstrung but we did not want to fix it by restringing.

So we removed the old shades, purchased new custom blinds from blinds.com, and the rest is history:

STARLINK MOUNT INSTALLED

We decided to get rid of our Verizon Internet hot spot and replace it with a Starlink dish using the Roam plan. Unlike the Verizon hot spot which we have to pay for every month whether we use it or not, the Roam plan allows month-to-month use. That made it a no brainer as Starlink is much faster than our former hot spot.