August Trip - Camp Shelly

We arrived Saturday at Camp Shelly in the late afternoon. The campground is operated by the Livermore Area Recreation and Park District. Erik grew up in Livermore and his family spent many summers camping here when he was a child.





There were about half of the 26 sites filled Saturday night and Sunday night we were one of 2 sites being used. It was nice pretty much having the entire place to ourselves.

We took a drive around Lake Tahoe. Nathan had only been up to Tahoe in the winter. We took Missy for a walk and enjoyed the warm weather.

Emerald Bay is such a beautiful area of Lake Tahoe.

Erik's folks came up and stayed in TabStream mid week as we had to go back to work for the week. We will be back for Labor Day weekend.

Park Report:
Site # 26
Back In Space - no water, no elect
$30 /night

August Trip - Jackson Rancheria RV Park

This last weekend we stayed at Jackson Rancheria RV Park. We checked out this RV park a few weeks ago after we dropped off our niece and nephews at summer camp. This RV park is very new it opened in February 2008. We arrived Saturday night around 8pm and were greeted at the registration desk by a very friendly staff member. The spaces are all surrounded by lots of grass and young trees (great shade in a few yrs). The park has a large swimming pool, two hot tubs, a dog park, a large Clubhouse etc.

The Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians owns the Jackson Rancheria Casino, Hotel & RV Park.

Sunday morning we took Missy for a walk around the park looking at all the over sized trailers and RV's making our Tab look like a toy.

We went to brunch at the St. George Hotel in Volcano, CA. The town of Volcano is a cute "tiny" town in gold country. Last month we took our nephews to the Black Chasm Caverns just down the road from downtown.

Later Sunday we went took a drive to the Montevina Winery in Plymouth, CA.

Park Report:
Site #: 21 - Back In space
Full hookup / Cable
$31 each night.. w/ Good Sam Discount

Below are veiws behind our site

Places we plan to Camp the rest of 2008

August 9- 11
Jackson, CA - Gold Country
We will be staying Jackson Rancheria RV Park

August 23 - 25
South Lake Tahoe, CA
We will be staying at Camp Shelly

August 30 - September 1
South Lake Tahoe, CA
We will be staying at Camp Shelly

September 27 - 29
Calistoga, CA
We will be staying at Napa Valley State Park

October 4 - 6
Jenner, CA - Sonoma Coast
We will be staying at Stillwater Cove County Park

October 25 -27
Yosemite National Park
We will be staying at Yosemite North Pines Campground

November 29 - Dec 1
Santa Cruz, CA
We will be staying at New Brighton State Beach

December: tba

June Trip - Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park

We camped at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP just 5 miles from downtown Santa Cruz.

We arrived at the campground around 7:30 pm Saturday. As we drove to our space we saw a teardrop trailer. When we walked around camp the next day the teardrop was there all alone.. it had business cards on it from http://www.vacationsinacan.com

Sunday we drove into Santa Cruz and met up with our Sister in law Stepheni and took our dogs for a walk on the beach and let them play in the water. Missy loved it and slept very well that night.

That evening Nathan's brother Jared joined us after work at camp for dinner and a campfire. It was great to hang out and spend time with Jared & Steph.

May Trip - Yosemite part 2

We drove from Groveland to Yosemite just over an hour.

After spending time on the valley floor for a few hours it was getting hot around , We decided to go to higher ground and head to Glacier Point.

Glacier Point is on the south wall of Yosemite Valley at an elevation of 7,214 ft

Missy in the snow in the Parking lot on Glacier Point

After it cooled down in the valley we went to the lower Yosemite Falls

Sunset on Half Dome

May Trip - Yosemite part 1

We spent the weekend at Yosemite Pines RV Park in Groveland, CA


The drive to the RV park took about 2.5 hours. We enjoyed the drive up into Gold Counrty. Just past Oakdale, CA we saw a T@B Clamshell on the side of the road for sale ( too much traffic to stop and get a picture)When we arrived the weather was close to 100°.

Our space at the RV park was nice (Water/Electric) we set up the Tab tent for the first time, it was great to have some extra space. We also have the Tab Awning and a Coleman 14 Event Sun Shelter. We will use the Sun Shelter to cover more area when we spend more time at one location.

The park managers came by our area and remarked that the tent was larger then the trailer.

Some more Pictures of our space

Pictures around the park

Store & Registration (petting zoo behind)

Clubhouse / Showers (pool behind)

Group Picnic Gazebo

I placed our New Emblem on the curbside of the Tab

Tape is used tp keep the letters on the same line

Emblem Finshed