{"id":9816,"date":"2023-05-09T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2023-05-08T13:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T20:11:30","slug":"heading-out-for-alaska-trip-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2023\/05\/09\/heading-out-for-alaska-trip-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading out for Alaska trip 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We headed out around 11 am on Wednesday morning, drove over to our local Chevron Station to add 25 gallons of fuel at a really good price using the Chevron Rewards app that my son told me about and then hooking up the car to get on the road.\u00a0\u00a0 We got back on the road going on noon and immediately realized I didn’t bring my new sunglasses!\u00a0 I wasn’t going to travel 6 months without them, so we headed back home to find them.<\/p>\n

On the way home, Kathy noticed we had also forgotten the weather station, which is crucial on our trips.\u00a0 What a rough start!<\/p>\n

After searching for a long time for my sunglasses, I got a flashlight and found they had fallen between the seat and the console to the rear in my truck!!\u00a0 \u00a0In the process of looking everywhere in the RV though, we had extended the small bedroom slide so Kathy could look to see if they had somehow been put back there.\u00a0 (I had thought I put them in the RV on the dashboard.)<\/p>\n

We got back on the road and I was just getting onto the I-15 north when I noticed that BR slide was still out.\u00a0 OMG!!!\u00a0 \u00a0I pulled over and we pulled it in.\u00a0 Wow, never did that before!\u00a0 Geez.<\/p>\n

The rest of the drive to Barstow was pretty uneventful till we got to Victorville.\u00a0\u00a0 Ahead of me was a large truck and I noticed kids on a bridge ahead looking suspicious.\u00a0 Just then one of them dropped what looked like a rock about 5″ across to try to hit the truck in front of me.\u00a0 I leaned on the air horn, which shocked them, and they started running.\u00a0 Luckily it didn’t look like the rock hit the truck and more luckily, us.\u00a0\u00a0 That night we stayed at the Barstow KOA.\u00a0 We had stopped there before and it was a fairly decent place for the night.<\/p>\n

A little more on the fuel situation…\u00a0 We try not to fill our 150 gallon tank in California due to the $1 extra tax they add per gallon, so we last filled our tank in Tucson in March on the way home from the Escapade rally.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The cheapest fuel here in San Diego was $4.49 a gallon.\u00a0 Most places were way over $5.\u00a0 The Chevron near our house was $5.39, so driving the 2 miles to the next one was a good plan.\u00a0\u00a0 Add in the $1 per gallon discount on the first 25 gallons was nice.\u00a0\u00a0 That allowed us to make it to North Las Vegas where Gas Buddy told me fuel was $3.99 a gallon.\u00a0 When adding at least 120 gallons of fuel, even 50 cents a gallon difference saves enough for a great lunch or a cheap dinner out.\u00a0\u00a0 I just like to look at prices along the route we are taking to know where to fill up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We headed out around 11 am on Wednesday morning, drove over to our local Chevron Station to add 25 gallons of fuel at a really good price using the Chevron Rewards app that my son told me about and then hooking up the car to get on the road.\u00a0\u00a0 We got back on the road … <\/p>\n

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