Travel to Banning

 Friday December 14 was a good morning for us. The temperature was 7ºC and cloudy when we packed up to leave Orange Grove RV Park, Bakersfield. The temperature was up and down from 7ºC to 12ºC. It was windy in places causing driving to be slow and the sun did come out but quickly clouded over at the end of the trip and started to rain. Most of the way we were on Ca I-58 East and the elevation when we started was 644 feet and during the trip we were up as high as 4,250 feet above sea level.

It was a very interesting trip. The highway from Bakersfield to Tehachapi was through the the mountains. Along the way there were hundreds of windmills on the hillsides, all working, making a beautiful scene. I took many pictures and a movie. They did not really showed them well. The rail line went along the hills and through tunnels.

As we come to Mojave we were close to Edwards Air Force Base. This was desert country. There were signs saying, “Twenty Mule Teams”. were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889. They traveled from mines across the Mojave Desert to the near the railroad spurs, 165 miles (275 km) away in Mojave, California. The routes were from Furnace Creek to Mojave, CA, and from the mines at Old Borate to Mojave.

At Kramer Corner we turned onto Ca I-395, a single lane highway South. We climbed to 4250 feet elevations and went down a long winding highway with a 6% grade towards San Bernardino.

There we joined #210 on a four lane double highway for fourteen miles, which went through the city. It was noon by this time and Randal drove with both hands on the steering wheel. There were many over passes and construction of new one to go through. We merged onto I-10 East south of the city.

Just east of San Bernardino near Beaumont we stopped at a rest area to go to the restroom. This was second one we saw all morning. Back on to I-10 towards Beaumont and Banning. We arrived at Stagecoach KOA Park shortly after 1:00 pm. We registered for one week for $150.00 or $21.45 per night.

The sites here are not long, with are few trees. It is not full so it was not hard to get a spot.

Until next time don't forget "Discover It and Live It"