San Diego..La Pacifica RV park (very close to Mexico)

     Well we got here a day early because the night before we had reservations for 2 nights at Harrah's Rincon resort just outside of San Diego but decided against going there.  Why you ask.....it's 20 miles into the mountains around San Diego on reservation property, not far but in a motor home pulling a Jeep it was a bit harry and besides a sign read "vehicles over 40' not recommended".  Our rig is 37' with 4' between RV and Jeep and what 8 to 10' of Jeep....so we're about 50' and that freaked me out a bit, and it was dark which made it even scarier!  So there was a Wal-Mart just back a few miles where we spent the night and the next morning came to the La Pacifica RV park a day early and they could accommodate us, so we'll be here for six days instead of five. 
     The RV park, La Pacifica is very nice and clean, all the amenities we need and close to buses, trains, and trollies into whatever in San Diego if we don't want to drive.  The place like I said is really kept clean and that is great and somewhat surprising because 95% of the RV's are full time here, and 95% of those full timers are Hispanic.  Not that Hispanic's aren't clean but we find no matter what the residence if a RV park has a lot of full timers it's usually not near as neat and clean as others.  If you think about it at a monthly rate of $620 a month including utilities for San Diego that's pretty cheap living for those folks.  Besides that we're only 4 miles from Tijuana, Mexico where most of these folks no doubt have family/friends, and there are buses running across the border hourly daily.
     Now we await the kids arrival on Friday and that is with great anticipation because we miss them all so much after 3 plus months on the road and 6400 miles it's been a while.  As a matter of fact I just checked and by the time we get home we'll have logged 6780 miles if we don't deviate from the usual route from San Diego to Phoenix.  I actually thought we might hit the 7000 mile mark this year but looks like we'll fall a bit short of that, but still 6780 is a lot of miles especially at roughly $3.65/gallon and 6.8 mpg on average.  Wow if you look at it like that it's about $3640.00 for gas on the trek, but you can't put a price on the friends we seen and met and the things we did and seen and the fun we had along the way.  But then again you could look at it this way, we'll have been on the road for 94 days and take an average of $75/night in hotel/motels and you would have spent $7050 just for a place to sleep.  Oh whatever.........money well spent in our minds and that's what counts, life is too short and we're taking in all we can while we can and enjoying every minute of the journey (well almost every minute...we do have our occasional spats) and it's sights and characters we meet along the way.
     We hope to meet up with Matty's best friend and one of ours Time Anspach while we're here in San Diego, it's always good to see Tim and catch up on his life here in San Diego.
     It's time to get outside and put my wind ornaments and garb like that around the motor home, didn't spend as much time in any one spot long enough to do that on most of the trip.  While in Iowa it was due to rain for the first week or so of that leg of the trip, and wind and rain in Des Moines but from there on it was really great weather.  Last year record heat wherever we went and this year after the first couple of weeks of rain the weather has been cool and comforting the rest of the way!