After we said goodbye to the ocean again, we headed into the California hills to stay at our second Thousand Trails campground, Soledad Canyon. Thousand Trails is a campground membership that allows free 21 day stays for its members, and the membership came free for a year with our RV purchase. Why not try a few campgrounds?
This campground had real promise. It is huge and has 2 pools and 2 clubhouses with laundry and pickleball courts and lots of trees and a creekbed and coyotes who howled to the dogs who howled back.
The RV spots were not great. Although the map showed something like 300 spots, so many of them were out of order with no power at the towers. We found some incredible sandy spots by the creek but when we got out to walk them, we picked up the most serious destructive goatheads I’ve ever seen. We almost got Josey stuck in some deep sand at one spot - that was excitement I didn’t need!
The campground has a whole section that is being renovated where we walked around until we were asked to leave by the workers, and it will be really quite nice once complete. Our hope is that the rest of the campground is under the same renovation plan and that’s why so many of the best sites were uninhabitable.
We finally found a decent spot (with power!) and settled in. The sunsets were amazing. The pickleball was a lot of fun (Dan won, no surprise).
Ok I figured out how y’all are funding this lifestyle - Dan is hustling Pickleball, yes? I can visualize this nightly fleecing of unsuspecting retirees like it’s playing on my TV screen: all cute in their matching PB outfits, they think they are hot stuff until ~game #3 when y’all raise the stakes. Strong. Love it.
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