We’re off to Sugar Pine Point State Park on the west side of Lake Tahoe to camp with Angela, Steve and Nick. To break up the trip this time, we visited Jessie’s Grove, a Harvest Hosts site. A beautiful, small, vineyard near Lodi, California. As part of Harvest Hosts, the stay is free, with an expectation to purchase something from the host. With such excellent wine, it was not hard to do!

Sugar Pine Point SP was beautiful again, one of our Lake Tahoe favorites. We had beautiful hikes and even saw a young bear! The lake was high and the he mountains still had snow. Enjoy some images.

Great wine! Jessie’s Grove Vineyard, Lodi, CA

Little bear! Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California

Angela, Steve, and Judy, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California

Lake Tahoe, California

Campsite, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California

The grapes are growing! Jessie’s Grove Vineyard, Lodi, CA

Large tree, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California

Snow Plant, Sugar Pine Point State Park, Lake Tahoe, California

Lake Tahoe, California

Finally this month we spent some time with our friends, Bev, Fredric, and Baylee, near Santa Cruz in Felton at the Santa Cruz Redwoods RV Park. Beautiful area, wonderful trees, great hikes! Enjoy a few photos. 

From Cave Creek, we went north to Sedona, higher and colder but it was beautiful. They have been having snow and rain but the weather cooperated for our time there. We visited Jot and Linda in their beautiful new home. They are friends from the Central Coast California Airstream Unit, who recently moved to Sedona from California. Although we’ve stayed in Sedona several other times, we found some beautiful new hikes in the hills above the city. It has rained a lot this winter at home, I’m not really complaining because we need the rain, but the nice weather in Arizona was a welcome change and we missed 5 inches of rain in SLO while we were traveling. 

The next stop was a visit with Judy’s brother Ron in Phoenix where we stayed at the  El Mirage RV Resort again. Judy’s niece Pam and her husband Scott were staying at Ron’s house so it was good to touch bases with everyone.

Cave Creek Regional County Park, near Carefree, north of Scottsdale, was next. The campground was beautiful, large spaces in the Saguaros, and great hiking. It was the first time we stayed at Cave Creek, but we’ll go there again. Pam, Scott, and Jenny came to our camp one afternoon for a hike in the desert.

Our late February and March travel to Arizona started with a visit with our friends Jerry and Karen, and Judy’s niece, Rhonda and her husband Mitch in Lake Havasu City. Jerry took me jeeping to Whipple Wash south of the city, beautiful excursion. We enjoyed the dry weather after all of the rain in San Luis Obispo.

For our December camping this year, we took off up the California Coast to the Kirk Creek NFS campground, about 80 miles from SLO. We last visited Kirk Creek NFS campground on the beautiful the Big Sur Coast of California several years ago. Kirk Creek, along with Plaskett Creek, have been our favorites for many years, camping with our kids and grandchildren. We arrived on a Saturday afternoon to beautiful blue sky and enjoyed the high surf crashing next to the campground and stayed for three nights.

The second day was overcast, but very pleasant temperatures until evening when the predicted rains started with drizzle. Then, it rained hard all night, with the noise from the large waves overpowered the rain!

The day after the rain was clear and beautiful. We hiked one of our favorite hikes from the campground, Vincente Flat Trail.

Enjoy our photos!

Finally, our last stop was Valley of Fire State Park on the north side of Las Vegas. We’ve stayed here a couple of times before and we enjoy each visit. We stayed one night and then on to San Luis Obispo the next day. 

Our next stop was Cathedral Gorge State Park, Nevada, just across the border. We wanted to try a new park, so here we are. It’s a small park but has unique formations as you can see from the images.

Next we traveled to Snow Canyon State Park, Utah, near St. George. I’ve heard many good things about the area and it was a beautiful place to spend a couple of days. It is just north of St. George city boundaries. Lots of interesting hiking, beautiful formations, beautiful weather!

After the Balloon Fiesta, we took off for Winslow, Arizona and Homolovi State Park for a night. Then, Page, Arizona and the Elks Club for two nights so we can tour the Antelope Valley slot canyons.