Our first day on the road was a long one: approximately 450 miles to Yucaipa Regional Park near San Bernardino. We hit the road at 6:30 am, which was a bit early for many family members, and managed to make it to Yucaipa by about 3pm by taking almost no breaks.
We picked Yucaipa Regional Park for our first stopover because it had a huge water park with a crazy long water slide. So, imagine our disappointment when we found that the swim area was closed, despite the website saying it was open starting Memorial Day weekend. We had made reservations for two nights, planning on spending a day at the water park, but with it closed until June 14 we decided to leave the next day.
Our second day on the road was another long one: approximately 490 miles or so. For a regular car that wouldn’t be so bad, but we lumber along at 55 mph at the most, so we didn’t roll into Lake Solano County Park outside Davis, California, until about 6pm. One thing that makes Lake Solano unique is that there are feral peacocks all over the place. In the first five minutes we must have seen ten or more. I hadn’t really appreciated how noisy peacocks are until I camped among them! As Little Kid said, it sounds like they are screaming “help, help.”