Day Ten: June 19 (Mom's View)

We spent the 18th at the RV resort as a family.  Decided less tourism and more family time.  We have decided to continue our family vacation for now, but change some destinations around.  We have been planning this trip for months and who knows when Cord will have this kind of vacation time again.  So we leave Canyon Creek and set out for Yosemite!   We are so pleased that it shouldn’t be a long road trip to Yosemite, only about 150 miles.  Since we have so much time, we first went to the Jelly Belly Factory in Fairfield, CA.  The kids had a great time trying unique flavors, canned dog food, boogers, moldy cheese to name a few.  They also purchased a huge bag of Belly Flops, which are the jelly beans that are the wrong shape and color so they can’t be sold in regular retail stores.

Next we went to Concannon Vineyards.  They make a Petite Sirah with which I fell in love eight  years ago.  It was so cool to actually go to a vineyard of a wine that I already knew.  I even became a Wine Club member (that makes 6 including the 5 Washington wineries).

Then, the “fecal matter hit the air circulator.”  About 50 miles west of Yosemite, in the absolute middle of NOWHERE, we got a flat on the trailer.   The nearest town had a tire store, actually two, but since it is Sunday and Father’s Day no one was opened.  Cord took the car of the trailer and the tire off and we found a County Park, which has RV hookups so we can get to the tire store early the next morning.  Oh BTW the County Park is a known party area, which smells worse than our RV on a rocky road.