Solo life on 30 amps - Living full time in an RV: January 8th through the 16th - Week two - Lake Comanche

Destination number: 79/159/17

I picked this location as one of my stops on my 6-month trip so that I could catch up with some old friends and some extended Family. During the 20 years that I was married, I spent all that time roaming around Amador and Sacramento Counties. Though I had hoped to visit with a bunch of folks, Ongoing concerns about the COVID 19 Pandemic and some other mitigating circumstances meant that some of those visits would have to be put off until another time.

However because a timeline for my trip was already in place, and because the opportunity still existed to get together with others, I stayed the course and we relocated the motorhome to Lake Comanche in the town of Ione. This is the perfect time of year to come out to the North Shore of Lake Comanche. Though there are no RV hookups on this side of the lake, with the rains in December and some sunshine in early January, everything started to green up very nicely.

With the Allegro Bus being well equipped with a full freshwater tank, empty holding tanks, a generator and plenty of provisions on board, staying out here without hookups, or "Dry camping" is not a problem at all. If I use water sparingly, I can easily stay out here for 8 days. For those that do a lot of RVin'g, though there are no hookups here on North Short, if you go to the Blue Oaks campground you can find a dump station and there are water spigots to get fresh water. For Remi and I, we stayed on the Peninsula campground. The only facilities here are out houses and trash cans. But, it is very peaceful here!

Remi and I enjoyed the scenery here and having very few neighbors. Our view to the south, overlooking the lake was wonderful. And, our sunrises and sunsets could not be beat.

When we arrived, we had the Peninsula campground almost to ourselves. There was a nice couple from Elk Grove that stayed on the Peninsula as well, but they only stayed for a couple days. The Friday before we left, some more people came in as part of the long Martin Luther King Birthday weekend.

Though we were dry camping, we still had great communications services if we needed it. We have 25 Mbps internet speeds up and down, and we received 35 over the air TV channels at our location.

On Monday the 10th of January, my former boss from Volcano Communications John Pinola Jr. came by to have lunch with me and visit for an hour. On Tuesday, I had some errands to run and so I took the day off, ran the errands and also had lunch with a friend of mine Beckie White Juell who I volunteered with a lot at the county of Sacramento's animal shelter.

One of my errands was to run to Camping world and among other things, I had to pick up an additional banner for outside the rig.

No trip would be an experience without some drama. Monday afternoon Remi and I were out for a walk to check out a sunset and I heard a sound and saw, two dogs coming at us from behind and we almost had a dog fight. There was a man walking his three dogs about 100 yards away from Remi and I. His three dogs, (a husky mix, and two Australian cattle dog mixes) were off leash and coming down to us. I yelled at the man, to call his dogs. He didn't even realize Remi and I were down by the water, as he was only paying attention to the one dog closest too him. As soon as I yelled for the gentleman, the third dog headed our way and by this time the first two started to circle Remi and I. I've been in this sort of situation in the past, and these dogs didn't seem overly aggressive, but they were getting amped up. The guy was walking towards us and the third dog was running down to us and he was flashing his flashlight (what was that all about as none of the dogs had training collars on.). He was yelling at them, but the dogs were not paying any attention. One of the dogs came at Remi and snarled at her. She gave the dog a warning snap, and all of a sudden, the excitement was over. The one dog backed off, and the other one did too. The third one also stopped approaching. After about 2 minutes, one of the dogs started to respond to the owner who was calling them. He yelled at me, "Don't get near the Husky". Ya, well, what if the Husky gets near me! Yikes. All in all, it turned out fine, but it did get my heart rate up.

The rest of the week was relatively un-eventful with working the rest of the week and enjoying the beautiful environment. One day at lunch we hiked to the end of the peninsula and took the drone for a flight.

On Saturday, I went for a ride to check out some of my favorite locations here in the Amador and Sacramento valley. Those included Preston Castle and the old Folsom Power house.