Lots Of Birds At Prado County Park

We have been staying at the Prado County Park in Chino, CA for the past two weeks.  We leave tomorrow for another campground.  The park is very spacious.  The weekends get crazy here!  It has been sold out on weekends.  The week days are pretty quiet.  The views are nice.  The days are long here though because Dad is gone for 14-16 hours a day.  It is because of the bad traffic.  He leaves at 5:30 a.m. and normally gets home around 8 p.m.  Last night, he didn't get home until 8:30 p.m.  We hope that changes next week when we are closer to his work.

Last weekend, there was a big event here called the Warrior Dash.  We watched them build things and set up all last week. Saturday morning, they started playing really loud music at 6 a.m.  We were up, so it didn't bother us, but I bet some people were not thrilled with that.  I, of course, love crowds and add music to it and it is hard to hold me back.  I don't know why Mom didn't allow me to welcome all the people to the event. 

Rock climbing

Contestants climbing

There is a lot of walking area here.  Our favorite walks are in the morning when the air is still crisp.  We attempted to walk around the lake this morning, but decided it was just too far.  I could do it, but we were concerned that Scout might get tired and just lay down.  We walked a good distance and we enjoyed seeing the wildlife.  We even saw a skunk.  Yep, a skunk in daylight. He was near the playground.  Mom said we needed to get away from him, but Scout and I wanted to talk to him.  Mom insisted we leave, so we did.  Dad said he has seen peacocks here, but we haven't. 

 

See the brown guy there?  He didn't appreciate us trying to photograph him.

 

People seem to loose their shoes here.  These have been here for two days.  What is up with that?

Socks are missing their owner.

 

We scared this guy and he tumbled down the hill.

He landed on his back, so Mom flipped him over and he went on his way.

This weekend, there is a fishing derby for kids.  We are wondering how crowded it will be for that.

I guess that walk was more tiring than I first thought.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Doesn't Care About Ducks, But Finds Skunks Interesting

The Rest Of The Trip To California

We interrupted telling you about our trip to California to show you photos of our new home.  We figured we better tell you today before we forget about it.  (Mom is 50 now and her memory is not that good.  ::::snicker::::)

 

This sign was at the rest area.

This is where the sign was located - in the dog area.

This seems like a scary place to drive.

We had to wait in line to cross the border into CA.  They just waved us through but the horses in front of us were checked over.  Our campground was just across the border.

This was the dog area at our first California campground.

Scout was not happy with the heat.

 

Our site.

The campground was nice.  It was supposed to have a dog beach, but it just looked like a bunch of weeds to us. 

This campground looks neat!

This is the lake at our campground.

We have some pretty views.

Traveling is exhausting!

The sunrise from our site.

 

Our first site here.

We had to move to another site last Saturday as someone else had reserved the site. That was an adventure.  Dad was concerned about being able to angle the motor home.  Mom told him he could do it.  Well, it would have been easier if a car wasn't in our way.  We couldn't do it, so we went back to our first site and we called the park office. They sent a guy down who told us we could have the "emergency site".  It looked easy because it is a pull thru, but it is a curved pull thru with a big tree.  It was not easy and it took a while, but we got in.

Our rig is taller than that low branch.

The pine tree didn't help things.  See how we are almost off the pad?  We had to do that because of the trees.

 

Then, you have the electric box on the other side, so you can get all the way over.

Some sites have no trees.  Wow, that would be an easy site to get in.

It is not a bad site.  The other side is really where we should be, but it is all weeds.  There is more action on this side.

This is our view.

I think I watched a gopher this morning.

We couldn't get a good photo.

We have to go to another campground this weekend.  We would rather stay put, but this is a county park and they only allow campers to stay 14 days.  They charge a dollar a day per dog here.  Dad says the money comes out of our food budget.  Yikes!  The next campground will be closer to Dad's work.  We are currently 50 miles from his work and on a good day, it takes him 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to work.  He thinks his drive will be about an hour when we move.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Thinks California Is Different