9:30AM - Fleetwood Tioga plant tour begins in 30 minutes!We are sooooooo excited about going on our tour of the Fleetwood's Class-C plant tour this morning. After phoning Fleetwood a little while ago, we were told that George is the only person scheduled to go on this tour. A private tour!! Wow! 
5300 Via Ricardo, where the Fleetwood tour begins. 12 Noon - The most amazing thing about our Fleetwood tour!The thing that really impressed me most about the tour of the Class-C plant concerned the height of the floor.Tiogas are now built with about the same floor height as the Class-A RVs. This means that Class-Cs now have super large outside storage. It also means that Class-Cs are way up in the air. This is an amazing surprise.
Another impressive thing is, that from the time a chassis enters the plant to the time that it emerges as a finished RV, only 4.5 days have elapsed!
12:30PM - Fleetwood loves MsTioga's fiberglass job!Greg was our guide thru the Tioga plant. Greg loved MsTioga's fiberglass job! He said that he was going to talk to his manager about what he liked about our fiberglass. Greg is responsible for quality control and dealer relations, and has worked at Fleetwood for over 26 years. 2:30PM - Where do you find fresh water?Readers sometimes wonder where we find water to fill our fresh water tank. This afternoon we needed to fill up on propane, and asked the fellow doing the filling if there was a hose bibb that we could use for water? And he said, "Yes!"
Filling up MsTioga's fresh water tank. 3PM - Nite Camp in Hesperia.The Town of Hesperia is a desert community. We've traveled 42 miles today, close to our target and are stopping here in Hesperia for the nite.There is a fast food place nearby, and we can smell what must be onion rings frying. Driving us crazy!6PM - Reader Rich drops by.We were very happy to hear a knock on MsTioga's door this afternoon. It was Rich, a reader of our blog!!
Rich has been RVing for many years, and told of his travels in the State of Colorado. His stories make Colorado sound like a great place to go. MsTioga and The Team have never gone into Colorado before. We did come close to Colorado last year, when we traveled on the eastern side of Utah.
Reader Rich.



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6:30AM - The campground is almost empty.This National Forest campground where we have stayed the nite, has maybe 80 spaces. There are only six spaces filled, and two of those are camp hosts.The campground is very well maintained. Yesterday, about a dozen State of California women prisoners came to clean up the plants that grow along the campground roads. The piles of their cuttings now lay here and there waiting for pickup.It is very quiet at our Camp. A family biked past our site yesterday evening, and that is all that we have seen since we have arrived here yesterday.7:30AM - Moving only 30-40 miles each day.You may have noticed that we are not moving very far each day. With gasoline lately at $3.30/gallon, we have to be careful. Our last tank of gasoline cost over $90, the most ever paid for a tank of gas since we began our journey in February, 2003.The price per gallon is not of overall importance to MsTioga and The Team. What is important is how much we spend each month. If we go over $500 per month for gasoline, we will be heading for trouble!1PM - Camped in the City of Hemet.When we crossed the Riverside County boundary, a sign read, "No RV parking in the County of Riverside at any time." Not a very happy sign to read!We have made our Camp in Hemet, in an area where there are a bunch of big rig trucks parked. Perhaps we will be safe in this place?
MsTioga tucked in with the big rigs! 5:30PM - MsTioga and The Team have visitors!Guess what happened? Two families came to visit MsTioga and The Team!!
We talked for awhile inside MsTioga, and then all of us went out for supper together. Isn't that the greatest thing?!
[L-R] Carol, Noah, Nick, Ethan, George, Royal and Barbara.



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6AM - "Don't you miss having a home?"Reader Warren lives in England, and wrote an email wondering about me not having a home. Warren wrote: "I could not do what you do, because I would miss my home. How do you do it? Don't you miss seeing familiar places when you look out your windows?"Hi Warren,Thank you sooooo much for writing! When I am inside MsTioga, I feel completely at home. Everything inside MsTioga is familiar. The difference between your home and mine, is that the scenary looking out my windows changes. However, no matter where I travel, I am always at home inside MsTioga.George6:30AM - A trail over the hill.Yesterday while exploring the hill to the east, we found a gate marked, "Please close gate." We were curious. This morning, Little Mavicito and George decided to follow the trail thru the gate.We walked over the hill, and found a monument to a Spanish soldier who had come thru here over 200 years ago. Then we followed the trail across the road and up the hills west of our Camp.
Little Mavicito looks at the trail.
Colonel Pedro Fages monument.
Do you see MsTioga waiting for us to return? 10:30AM - Julian is pie town.We are in the Town of Julian, famous for their pies. Three companies here are solely devoted to baking and selling pies.This morning we are at Mom's Pie House.
MsTioga and The Team in the Town of Julian.
How could we resist apple pie with crumb topping?
1PM - Camped in the Cleveland National Forest.We have made a Camp in the Oak Grove campground in the Cleveland National Forest. MsTioga asked, "George, are you paying for a campsite?" George replied, "Yes! However it is only $5, and this is NOT an RV campground."MsTioga thought about this for a moment and was heard to comment, "Hmmmmmmm!" 
George wonders about the BBQ at our campsite.



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