We took care of two maiden voyages during this camping weekend.

The first was with our new truck:

 

 

Compare that to the pic from our ‘End of an era‘ post:

 

 

The other maiden voyage was for our son, Aaron.  This was the first time he was towing his new, our old, Airstream:

 

 

We decided not to go too far for either of us.  That way if there were any major issues we could very easily bug out and head home.  Roxie and I had did some scouting a while back in the area and discovered Club Royal Oak outside Kingsburg.  This was ideal as it was virtually right in between Fresno and Visalia.

We got there about 4:30 which meant we could let Aaron and Hanna (his girlfriend) in when they arrive.  The RV park is totally gated and needs a key card to get in.  A lot of sites, including ours, are right on the Kings River.  Unfortunately the river was very low at this time.  We will have to come back here sometime when the river is running high.

We had a few problems unhitching where I had to jack the trailer and truck to a point where its rear wheels were off the ground.  After analyzing it a bit I adjusted the legs that hold the equalizer bars to the tongue.  Hooking up when we went was much easier.  I will have to go back and check this rig at the scales like I did with the other rig.

Aaron and Hanna showed up around 6:30 and I helped him get ‘his’ rig in the spot.  The spots here are HUGE!  They are wide enough to park your trailer sideways if you want.  We had Aaron just pull his trailer straight in.  That way our doors faced each other:

 

 

He quickly learned how to hook the utilities up and we were eating dinner in no time with a campfire later that evening.

The next day was just a take it easy day.  I never left the campground the whole day, trust me that is a rarity for me!  It was nice to just relax and take care of a few small projects on the truck and trailer.

The campground had a car show on Saturday, which we didn’t know about but went to see anyway.  They also had Elvis performing but we opted-out of that.  We could still hear it at the sites.  We also bought some fresh kettle corn.  Here are the top three winners at the car show, alas I forget who got first:

 

 

We had a simple dinner of dogs, sausages and burgers, with Roxie’s masterful potato salad.  We then watched Ironman 3 in our trailer and retired shortly thereafter.

Sunday started slow and calm without Aaron.  He was still sleeping and did so for quite a while.  We hatched a plan after he woke up.  We would hookup his trailer, follow them to Fresno, drop the trailer, go have some Teppanyaki for lunch.  Here he is backing out the trailer and just missing the garbage can:

 

Roxie took a family shot of Aaron, Hanna, Paige and Maggie:

 

Here is a couple more shots Roxie took of them on the road back to Fresno:

 

After that we would come back and hookup our trailer and head home.  This only worked because the park had no one coming in on Sunday evening.  The management let us stay as long as we needed.  We came back to get our trailer and there were only 2 RV’s there.

The road home was uneventful and short!  The usual stop at the dump station.  I did another time lapse of the drive home here: