Travel Day to Tulare

It was 9:30 AM when we finally had everything ready and hit the road for Tulare, CA. I entered the destination in both of the GPS's - the truck and Jeep - and we were on our way. One thing we didn't count on was that the routes calculated by the two GPS's would be different. Our travel plan is always that Josie follows in the Jeep and we stay in contact with our little Midland portable radios. We came up on the exit that would take us to Bakersfield the back way that we went last week and my GPS in the truck had us going straight. Josie got on the radio and asked what we should do. Thinking that my GPS had another cool way to get to Bakersfield, we followed the directions on mine. Not so. Evidently the older maps in my GPS did not have the route that was calculated by Josie's newer GPS so we ended up going through L.A. and over the Grapevine! Josie was beside herself thinking that she would have to drive through snow on the Grapevine. I'm sure it was a longer trip going that way but it was too late when we realized what had happened. We stopped at the rest area at Gorman on top of the Grapevine and got these two shots:

This second shot shows the snow that was on top, but not on the highway:

The snow was not a problem so Josie relaxed. The rest of the trip was uneventful and we arrived at our campground, Sun and Fun, in Tulare around 3 PM. The park is OK but not an "It" factor campground. Our space is shown below:

We will leave around 10 AM this morning which should get us to Columbia sometime around 3 PM. We will probably use the GPS that is in Josie's Jeep so that we don't get caught taking a longer route to our destination. Hopefully, we'll be all set up in our new location by tomorrow morning...