California

California and more stunning landscape, Mojave National Preserve and Joshua tree National Park

 

Riverside County

Boondockers Welcome, The Citrus Orchard. Very lucky to have found this place, Steve and Cheryl could not have been kinder and more welcoming, letting Derek stay while he sorted out the sale of the caravan, storage of the truck camper for our next trip, transport for Lucy  and their exit plans. Other campsites in LA county are still closed.

California

Venice Beach LA, a scruffy bohemian beach made even scruffier with the boarded-up shops.

 

California

Good bye USA, thanks for the hospitality. I don’t think I will see LAX this quiet again, well I hope not.
Back in Australia, we could not have been looked after any better by The Crown Metropol and the Victorian Government. Laura had her birthday on day 11, Johanna and I let her have the rights to the fluffiest dressing gown, we had spent the week fighting over it and the Crown Metropol gave her a gift bag of things to keep her busy.

Our last day of quarantine today, Covid-19 tests came back negative, we are free to leave...…...