Before leaving Twenty-Nine Palms Ron researched the area near, the Salton Sea and Slab City to find us a full service RV park with cable service so we could watch the Super bowl. He found the FOY Spa RV Resort right in between the two areas we are interested in visiting. On-line the place looks beautiful and expensive but since there were no another full service CG’s in the area I made reservations. The place is enormous and sits out in the middle of the desert with the closest services like grocery stores and shopping 40-60 miles away.
The drive was uneventful. Interestingly, the speed limit on the highways is 75 mph but tractor trailers and motorhomes towing cannot go faster the 55 mph. So all the trucks and RV’s stay in the two right lanes crawling while everyone zooms past.
The cloud cover was quite dense and low so I was unable to get a good shot of Mount Shasta.
The closer we got to the mountain we began seeing windmills – thousands of windmills. And this was in Palm Springs.
It took 3 hours to drive 116 miles because of all the red lights on highway 111 and then only being able to drive 55 mph. We were greeted by a very friendly staff and assigned our space.
I think we got the budget space for $50.00 per night up on a hill . The space was a drive in space so we are looking at a wall of dirt and trailer up on the dirt hill. HMMM. Not like the pictures and certainly not resort like! We are in the desert so there is no grass just dirt. We get that, but seriously for $50.00 we get this.
The pictures on-line show lovely flat sites with lots of room to breathe. There is a space to the right of us that if occupied will leave no breathing room. OK – so much for wanting resort sites. At least the sun is shining and it is 78 degrees. Finally, we can put n short sleeve shirts. Just to be clear there are a couple of nice areas for RV’s but we weren’t offered those. The place also has resort amenities like two pools and hot tubs, library, gym. mailroom, small store etc, but hey didn’t spend any money for rv sites.
Did I mention the lace is huge.
We had lunch then took Jewel for a walk in the doggy park. Did I mention that along with the beautiful site we have there are four pages of rules to be followed. LOL I’m serious – lots of rules – and if not followed you will be banned from the park.
Sunset overlooking the mountains.
Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday so we will be up and out early to tour the Salton Sea and take in Slab City and Salvation Mountain. More on those tomorrow.
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