Day 189 Santa Barbara - Pomona - LA
Trip Start
May 07, 2008
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Trip End
Nov 22, 2008
Pomona,
California,
United States
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
With the plan to have The Castle Cleaned, we set off to find a place in Santa Barbara. Mandy directed us accurately to the destination we chose (advertised as a truck wash) to find it to be a simple servo. Never mind we filled with gas and set off South to complete the circle we began those few months ago.
The trip down the coast line from Santa Barbara would have to be our best Coastal run we have experienced. The views of the ocean, were superb, the ocean was flat and the sun was sparkling of the water, a great sight to absorb. At least it was not blocked by high rise or private homes. From our highway perch we observed a section of the "road adjacent to the beach", lined with RV's all with unrestricted views of the water. Obviously a free park and certainly a known spot for the campers.
The route eventually took a track inland to take us to our destination, this was a skirt along the East side of LA towards Pasadena, to our present location of Pomona.
We stopped off at a Wal Mart for a morning tea break, and to set our sights for an RV dealer that advertised a "Wash rack" (we figured this would be a place to clean the Castle) also we figured we might get a price from them about buying The Castle.
We had a couple more phone calls as we were driving along, from people that had taken our number from our For Sale Notices on the windows.
We visited the RV centre and arranged for the Castle to be cleaned, there was no interest in purchasing the Castle, they offer a Sale by Consignment Service, of course is not applicable for us.
We spent an hour waiting for the Castle to be returned and happily paid the fee for the clean, The Castle, came up beautifully sparkling clean, a home to be proud about.
We headed out to a shopping centre and parked up to enjoy a lunch. Programmed to the nearest KOA at Pomona.
We arrived and used up our rewards points for our nights stay, set to a little cleaning up and sorting of stuff, as well as plan tomorrow.
Tomorrow is planned to return to Cruise America, so sort out the return of the Castle process.
This will give us guidelines of what we will have time to spend the next few days before our flight home.
