Sooooo with the new RTT cover I was itching to get out and try it out! What better way to do that than a day trip to Yosemite.
Living in Glendale its supposed to be "only a 5 hour drive" but you know at cruiser speed that turns into 6-7 hours. IDK if you guys suffer the same way I do with the 33" and the lift but going anything faster than say 55mph or 2,000 RPM it seems to really destroy the gas milage. Keeping her there I was able to maintain a 13.86mpg average which seems pretty good to me, but man I wish I was going faster. I used a new app to keep track of the drive called
Gaia GPS I'm sure some of you have heard of it
It was cool knowing what our current elevation was, average MPH, and overall time traveled and time stoped... really all the stats are neat to look at. Here is what the actual trip looked like, I forgot to hit record after a rest stop :/ but its almost all there minus the last ~ 200 miles. This app is made to do off roading, I normally use All Trails for that type of thing but always down to try something new out and this trip was perfect to get used to the navigation of the app and the trip planning feature I can see being very powerful for bigger multi day trips in the dirt.
Actual Track
Having never done a get out of work and go trip we decided to take on the challenge. I got out of work early that day around 3pm and Jasmine got out a little later 6:30 which made for a really late 8:00pm departure. The first leg of our journey took us to
Los Banos Reservoir Campgrounds or so it was supposed to lol. We ended up getting to the campground around 1:45am only to find the gate at the entrance closes at 10pm (Should have called an will take it as a lesson to call in advanced from now on) about 15 miles from anywhere we decided to do the wrong thing and pitch the RTT at the campground gate just cuz I was exhausted. I figured a couple hours of sleep would be good, we could get up in the morning and be out before 6am and no harm no foul....
Taking the cover off was a snap, I cracked a much needed beer and took some timed-exposures of the place.
What I was not expecting was for boaters and their rigs to start showing up around 4:30am, and the ranger showing up around 5:15am. The ranger was super nice and only mentioned in passing to the guys waiting at the gate "Looks like someone camped here last night" so I guess we where fine and there was nothing to worry about ?? Probably would have been a different story if there weren't people waiting to enter at the gate. Anyway I couldn't sleep after that so we packed up and headed to my cousins house to pick up the rest of the party!
I have a cousin that lives in Merced about an hour outside of the
Yosemite National Park we scooped her up along with her mom who was here visiting. What a great way to show them around the park Espostoa was a champ she handled the traffic and the parking spots like no other.
It was a great trip and I think about as epic as a day trip can get, we got home around 2am on Sunday, Jasmine made it to work by 9:30am so the trip was a huge success, no hiccups or bumps and a great shakedown for the rig.
Man I can't get enough of these views.
Would you have slept at the campground gate?
Whats the longest day trip you have taken?
Whats your AVG MPG when tripping?
amazing out there, gonna have to make that one of the stops on my way back to Florida one day.
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