Roseville to Oakland in 78 Days: The Southeast Coast Spectacular: Move player back one square (MO)

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Move player back one square (MO)

Dinner last night was on “the hill”—the local designation for the Italian district. Nice family restaurant, in business for something like 30 years. On leaving we found our driver’s side mirror smashed, probably sideswiped by another truck with a mirror of equal height. No note. No way, even with tape, that the truck could be driven safely any significant distance.

So today I got up early and started working the phone explaining that we are in transit and by 9 AM the truck was in the body shop of Don Brown Dodge in St Louis. By 10:30 AM I was back in the campground with a new mirror and articulating arm - $440, just under our $500 deductible. Great service, Don Brown.

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How we're doing...

Pulling a 2005 25' Airstream Safari trailer with a 2005 Dodge Ram 2500 diesel.

We arrived home November 19th, 2007, after completing about 9900 miles across 24 states.

See blog entries Sept and early October to learn about our solo trip east to Delaware.

For our account of the WBCCI Southeast Coast Spectacular caravan from Deleware through Georgia, see posts from October 3rd to November 10, 2007.

Our solo trip home is described in posts dated November 10 to November 22, 2007.

Diesel has gone from under $3 most of the way east to $3.35 when lucky in Georgia, and finally abut $3.59 on re-entering California. The Dodge performed well, although I wish I had stronger braking and 4WD.

We developed a rain leak near the Airstream skylight and we have episodes of foul odors. The galley/refrigerator GFI has tripped twice for unknown reasons. Also the gray-water tank may have a leak, evident when it becomes overfull. Otherwise, the trailer performed admirably.

Free WiFi has become fairly commonplace in campgrounds, though maybe a third are still without.

Television on the laptop has been a failure. I have a new HP computer with plenty of RAM, a large hard drive, a fast processor, and I think decent video capability. Either TV on a laptop just isn't practical yet, or possibly my HP TV tuner adapter is a piece of crap. (The only time we've really missed TV is when something big is happening in the news, especially if weather related.)

Our TomTom GPS has been very handy when independently traveling but it can mislead - our caravan leaders issued us a drivers manual for use on the caravan, and cautioned not to follow the GPS in certain parts.

Would we take another WBCCI caravan? Sure! Our fellow caravaners were wonderful, the leaders were excellent, costs were reasonable, and the organized nature allowed us to see and do far more than we would have otherwise.

What we're doing...

This is our record of our 78 day journey from Roseville, California, to Oakland, California, for Thanksgiving 2007.

We left Roseville September 5, 2007, towing an Airstream trailer, headed for Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. At Rehoboth Beach we joined up with other Airstreamers from around the country - all but two of them strangers to us - for a 40 day caravan down the eastern seaboard to Jekyll Island, Georgia.

The caravan ended November 10, 2007, with a party at the Jekyll Island Hotel - the 25 rigs and 48 individuals safe and sound and now good friends.

On November 11 we pulled out for our solo trip back to California following a southern route. We made it home November 19th, in time to join John and Carmen and many other relatives in Oakland for Thanksgiving.

Roseville to Oakland in 78 Days: The Southeast Coast Spectacular