Day 30 - A HOT transfer day

 With our tour of the LA/San Diego area complete, we joined the rest of the mass exodus out of Chino Hills and started out of the park.  Thankfully, this was the last time we would have to traverse the one-lane, winding road of Chino Hills State Park.  Unfortunately, it was Sunday morning  and so we encountered plenty of traffic on the road.  Eventually we were out of the park and on our way only to find some more, you guess it, LA traffic.  Sigh.

On our way out we needed to make a rest stop and ended up stopping in Pasadena.  We stopped at a nice park and were left with the idea that Pasadena was a seemingly nice community.  We hoped we could see the Rose Bowl, but it wasn’t to be - at least from our current route.

Leaving LA meant a steady uphill, but then we dove down into the San Joaquin valley as we headed north on I-5.  Very quickly, it was clear that were had entered the valley of veggies and fruits.  We passed orchard after orchard for miles and miles - some stone fruit (peaches, nectarines, oranges) and also some nut orchards.  The boys chose to spend some of their trip watching some Simpsons episodes - they’re fans now

For one of the first times in the trip, we arrived to camp (a KOA) early - almost at check-in time.  Ironically, it was likely also the worst weather we had encountered.  It was 104 degrees when we arrived and it was expected to still go up.  So we set up the camper, opened the windows, and promptly joined the others at camp in the pool.  

As the sun started to go down, we sat down for a later dinner of bagels and eggs.  Then, to continue to let it cool off, we got into the air conditioned car and drove to get some ice cream at Fosters Freeze!  Let’s just say that the sizes of the “junior” twisters (AKA blizzards) were generous!  All four of us had very full bellies at the end of this.

With full bellies and everybody cooked from heat, we turned on the A/C in the camper and laid down, thankful the A/C was an option.