{"id":2094,"date":"2017-08-04T17:03:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2017-08-04T17:03:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T00:03:25","slug":"heading-toward-de-tour-village-paradise-point-rv-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2017\/08\/04\/heading-toward-de-tour-village-paradise-point-rv-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading toward De Tour Village & Paradise Point RV park."},"content":{"rendered":"

We left early around 8:30 am so we could hit the dump station and still get to the next park at a reasonable time.\u00a0\u00a0 Summer Breeze campground was really nice and I almost didn’t want to leave, but it was time to get to a new spot.\u00a0\u00a0 The drive was unremarkable till we hit the city (village) limits when a dark, black cloud enveloped the town and our view out the front.\u00a0\u00a0 We pulled over so I could check the NWS CONUS Doppler radar web site.<\/p>\n

By now the lightning was spectacular out the front window.\u00a0\u00a0 Not really a good thing when you consider what that means.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, I determined the storm was moving southwest and we should be thru it quickly.\u00a0 Wow,\u00a0 was I incorrect! \u00a0 We started to head to the campground and the storm hit us like a brick.\u00a0\u00a0 We got to the turnoff for the road out to the point when the rain and wind picked up significantly.\u00a0\u00a0 At one point on that small road, Kathy started yelling that she couldn’t see, slow down! \u00a0 Inconsequential when you realize I was the one driving.<\/p>\n

We came around a 90-degree turn and it was like we hit a hurricane, \u00a0 The rain was horizontal and hitting us dead on, making the wipers on high of no use then.\u00a0 I was just driving by braille then, hoping not to hit one of the bumps.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I eventually found the dirt road turnoff for the campground. \u00a0Now we only had to get thru the locked gate, to which we had a code.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But when we got there, it was raining too hard to open the window to punch it in.<\/p>\n

Then out of nowhere a person started walking toward us with a small umbrella. \u00a0He was going to open the gate for us.\u00a0\u00a0 You need to realize it was a torrential rainfall.\u00a0 How his umbrella stayed open in the wind gusts was amazing to me.\u00a0 What he didn’t know was that I knew the code for the gate, but the rain was coming in at such an angle it was streaming down the driver’s window channel on the inside. \u00a0 I was just trying to keep it from getting on the floor in the coach. I had lots of towels shoved into the channel to sop it up prior to the channel filling and overflowing on the floor.\u00a0 For the most part it worked. \u00a0And the guy opening the gate made it even better so I didn’t have to open that window to punch in the code. \u00a0 [Thank you, Tony!]<\/p>\n

The sun came out just a few minutes after we parked and I learned the name of the good Samaritan.\u00a0 His name was Tony and his wife’s name was Julie.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He had just purchased his coach a few months ago too. \u00a0 His license plate was a take-off on Cousin Eddy from the Christmas Vacation movie.\u00a0 I had not seen that one, but am looking for a download soon as Cousin Eddy had a motorhome. \u00a0It was the same year as ours and had done some upgrades to get it just right.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>An hour later we were sitting outside watching the water as the sun was slowly making its way toward the horizon over this glorious little bay in front of us.\u00a0 Large cargo ships were traversing the waterway in the distance, and now that the sun is down, with full lights blazing.<\/p>\n

We sat outside talking with the neighbors about their travels and where they were heading till the mosquitoes forced all of us to head into our RV’s quickly.\u00a0\u00a0 Tonight was Kathy’s mosquito introduction.\u00a0\u00a0 We don’t have mosquitoes in San Diego.<\/p>\n

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We left early around 8:30 am so we could hit the dump station and still get to the next park at a reasonable time.\u00a0\u00a0 Summer Breeze campground was really nice and I almost didn’t want to leave, but it was time to get to a new spot.\u00a0\u00a0 The drive was unremarkable till we hit the … <\/p>\n

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