This Years Plans?

[Colliemom]

Now that the holidays are over and a new year has begun, time to start looking forward toward another year of camping, traveling or what not. So any plans, hopes, dreams out there? Suggestions for GTG’s etc.....

At the moment I will probably be hanging around MI this summer with a foray into WI. If travel budget gets a bit more green added, then maybe might venture someplace else. Anybody heading to MI this year, give me a holler.

[OregonLuvr]

I have only made one set of reservations so far this year. I wanted to camp at the very popular Bullards Beach in Bandon on the Oregon coast for a few days the end of June. Will be looking for some other options for more camping spots. It is often difficult to get a camping spot on our coast in the summer and weekends are even more difficult.

It is too early for me to make anymore reservations at this time as I have no idea where I will be or where I am going LOL

[Cudedog]

Planning a trip from my Sacramento-area home to Klamath Falls to check out real estate for a possible/probable move.

I spent three days evacuated out of my home last February due to the spillway failures at Oroville dam. Don't want to ever do that again. (I know, here goes Anne again, blah, blah, blah ).

Of course, since then, what was left of the lower part of the main spillway after it failed (not much) has been demolished, the canyon that the water had carved has been filled in, and the spillway has been rebuilt/replaced. The upper part of the main spillway is scheduled for the same treatment after the rainy season here ends (about May).

However (I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!) they are now finding "hairline cracks" in the newly-poured concrete of the repaired/replaced portion of the main spillway. DWR (California Department of Water Resources) assures everyone that this is a normal consequence of concrete curing.

Whew! No worries there, then.

It was (and is) DWR that is responsible for the inspection and maintenance of the main spillway, so that the spillway would remain safe, and in working order. You know - the spillway that failed.

It was DWR that said that water releases had been increased on the damaged main spillway, so that the "emergency" spillway would not need to be used. You know, the one that was not actually a spillway at all, just your average California dirt hillside with trees and brush and grass, with a concrete lip at the top.

It was DWR that said, once water began to flow over the lip that the spill (down rapidly-eroding dirt hillside) was "under control, no problem". (Watch what happens when you aim your garden hose at the dirt in your backyard - the water will dig a hole with the water coming out of your hose at about 1 cubic foot per minute. The water coming over the concrete lip was hitting the dirt at a reported 12,000 cubic feet per second.)

That is, until one of the few people at the dam who were apparently paying attention noticed that a major crevasse was being excavated in the hillside by the water, the crevasse eroding closer and closer to the concrete lip. Had the concrete lip been undercut by the erosion, to quote Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea (the man who called for the evacuation, after, by chance, accidentally over-hearing a conversation by DWR engineers): "It was not whether people would die, but how many would die.”

Then, suddenly, it was time for 200,000 people to hit the road. All at once. I was one of them. They gave us an hour to git outta town.

So! No worries about the hairline cracks on the newly-rebuilt portion of the spillway, though. Whew! DWR has it under control! Yeah!

On the other hand, haven't read nothin' coming from DWR about the effects of cavitation on small cracks.

https://www.usbr.gov/ssle/damsafety/risk/BestPractices/Chapters/VI-3-20150610.pdf

But I'm not an engineer, so what do I know?

Anne

[chalet05]

This is one of the topics I always look forward to reading. For the first time in 10 + years of full timing, I can say I have no definite plans! I will eventually show up in Kansas to visit my aunt who was widowed a little over a year ago and is about to lose her step sister to cancer. Otherwise, so many choices!

[SoCalGalcas]

After Quartzite, I have no definite plans except for the two weeks with the family at Rock Creek.

Annie, my "soapbox" is larger than yours!!! (homeless, Hep A and camping on Fiesta Island)

lyn

[OregonLuvr]

Lyn, Annie, anyone is welcome to come to Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon OR while Laura and I are there. June 25, 26, 27th. Think Sandi is coming up. Anyone else??

[Cudedog]

Lyn, Annie, anyone is welcome to come to Bullards Beach State Park, Bandon OR while Laura and I are there. June 25, 26, 27th. Think Sandi is coming up. Anyone else??

I think that sounds like a plan! Electric hookups with available showers are just up my alley. Plus, I really liked the Oregon State campgrounds I stayed at last summer.

Do you have reservations? If yes, please pm me your campsite so I can look at availability nearby.

Thanks.

Anne

[BarbaraRose]

No trips planned for me this year (unless I come across a cute little trailer), so just working on the house, inside and out. Will be flying back to MN in June to visit my daughter and my friends and family.

Will just travel vicariously with all of you this year!

[Bethers]

Let's see... The trip to Q, then I'll meet up for the last part of the Tucson gtg. I haven't decided my places to visit before getting to SD. The weather always plays a part in that decision. I'm hoping to take 3 or 4 or more weekend or longer trips while up there this year. Where those will be to is yet to be decided.

Editing because I forgot to put in my other week off when I plan to head to Yuma. My bff will be going there from Iowa for the birth of another grandchild. And I can't miss the chance to gtg with her!

[Irmi]

We will be in Ocala through the beginning of June, other than a quick trip for a week to Port St. Lucie. Then back to MD. Things could change, but we're planning on coming back to Ocala for another winter.

[bikerchic777]

I'm already living out of my comfort zone I'm currently in the Keys, visiting some friends I met my very first winter RVing, in El Centro, CA. They live/work in Marathon now. Just hopping around FL, visiting friends. Got to meet a 2nd cousin in Leesburg. Planning to leave the Keys tomorrow afternoon and spend a couple of nights at a casino, before heading over to Palm Beach to visit a friend I made at Amazon one year. From there, I plan to join Vicki and Dave in Avon Park. Plans are in the works to go to the Tampa RV Show with a friend or more. Lots of friends to see in FL, then thinking of heading over to MS to visit a friend and LA to visit my nephew and his wife. I have to live on the cheap, so lots of boondocking is likely.

I start work for Beth, again, in Keystone, SD. Didn't take much convincing, this time,
for my friend, Ken, to go back and work with me. We had a lot of fun last summer and hope to continue the fun. I'll stop in IA to see my 100 yr old mom, of course, and take care of medical/dental appts.

[snowball]

sounds like most of us don't have plans this year...yet!!!
I have to admit that I don't have any either would love to go to Iowa for a visit
however I don't know if I will take the 5th wheel or not may just see if DD would like a
road trip guess we will see later
sheila

[bikerchic777]

Sheila, if you go to Iowa, I hope you can swing through SD and visit me and Beth!
I'll be in West Des Moines, in April, to visit my mom and take care of Dr and dentist appts, then up to Keystone to start work May 1st.

[snowball]

that would be fun Linda
sheila

[Bethers]

that would be fun Linda
sheila

Two summers in a row... What fun.