August 14, 2020 - Santa Margarita

Title: August 14, 2020 - Santa Margarita
Hike Info : Description 

Hike Info:

Type: Car

 

Description:

We are going to meet up with Andrea and Lawrence, and Friday, Rachel and Edress in Santa Margarita. The original plan was to leave earlier in the day, hopefully in the morning and enjoy an afternoon with them. Steven and Korra would come over after he got off of work.

But with Fresno topping 110^o and Santa Margarita being 100^o that just did not feel like fun. So we decided to meet around 7:00pm at the KOA in Santa Margarita. So Steven and Korra came with us. We stopped at Carl’s Jr in Kettleman City. We ate our hamburgers in the little shade we could find behind a retaining wall. That gave us inspiration to leave sooner than linger. The getting on the air conditioner went on quickly after we started the car. We did stop at a rest stop on the way over. It is a bit ominous when there is a sign indicating that watch your pets as there are rattlesnakes.

We got to the KOA about 7:20PM. Andrea and Lawrence are already here. We check in at the office-there is a sign which commands this. After I get the instructions-Andrea has paid already for the extra vehicles, Rachel, Edress and Friday drive in. We all get to site 38 to find Lawrence and Andrea discussing how to set up camp.

The place is large and cleared out. A single table and fire pit is present. The bathroom is across a 30’ ravine. The two things I would fault the site on is that there is a pretty decent slope. The other, and this is more because of the condition, the site has no shade. But we can work around the latter. It seemed like Sherri and I slept well and did not slide so the slope did not bother us.

This was the first meeting between the dog cousins: Friday and Korra. On the whole, they got along OK. There are a few moments during our time together where there was dog jealousy. But not bad.

 

Even though we did not have a campfire, we did talk, the seven of us, throughout the night. It is good to have the family together, even if it is not physical-no hugging, and trying to keep at least 6’ from each other. Also masked when we were close. Missing the closeness, but enjoying just being together. Much better than our Zoom meetings.

We finally got to bed around 11:00am and were out quickly.