Day 10 - 12...A Vacation from Our Vacation
3 Days
1,062 miles
2 National Park's
1 National Historic Landmark
Now that we had answers, we knew it would take a few days to get things fixed so we decided to trade in our little rental car for a bigger car (BIG MISTAKE!) and hit the road for a little vacation from our vacation.
Once we spent about two hours returning the first car and renting a different car in a different city. We were back on the road heading south to Death Valley National Park. Temperatures were always over 100° and got up to 112°! The rental car AC was mediocre at best so it was a warm trip!
About 20 minutes into the trip we got word that it would be two to three weeks to get the new computer and parts for Fleetwood.
We continued on and drove through Death Valley into Nevada to Boulder City for the night.
The next morning we headed to Hoover Dam.
And on to Joshua Tree National Park.
We drove into Joshua Tree from the south and out the north into Twentynine Palms where we stayed for the night. Along the drive temperatures were between 105° and 113°! With our lacking AC we were pretty warm.
The next morning, Saturday, we headed back to Visalia. Since it would be several weeks before Fleetwood would be back up and running, we decided to get a one way rental and head for home.
The only place I could book a one way rental was Bakersfield to Salem. We stopped in Bakersfield on the way back to Visalia to pick up the rental, and discovered you can't rent more than one rental at the same time from the same company. So we had to cancel that reservation and go with a different rental company. We got back to Fleetwood and picked up the rest of our stuff and moved everything into the new rental car in the 109° heat! Finally we arrived back to the rental car return to drop off the broken AC rental...well we tried! They were closed, and didn't allow after hours drop offs. Ugh! After calling customer service they said for $81 we could drop it off at the Fresno airport or wait until Monday morning to turn it in and pay for two extra days. We chose Fresno and hit the road north.
We spent the night in Fresno and are heading north for home in the morning. When Fleetwood is back up and running we will come back and pick her up.
This brings an end to our Flam Fam Road Trip.
