About the only place there is to camp is to go over the mountains towards Temecula where the Jojoba Hills Escapee’s Resort is located. Since we are Escapee members we are allowed to boondock on their grounds and have use of most of their facilities such as pool, exercise room, showers, laundry and pickle ball courts. This is a huge park with close to 700 sites which folks purchase then install their RV or park model on the site. If not in use, the site can be rented.
The drive over the mountains was a little on the tense side as the road was very narrow with next to nothing for a shoulder and curvy. As we were coming down, all of San Diego were going up! At least that’s the way it seemed. Camper after camper pulling trailers of ATV’s were headed to the sand dunes we had just left behind.
The area north of Temecula, North Mountain Wine Trail in Warner Springs, is an up and coming wine region. We visited two wineries on Saturday (Shadow Mountain and Sierra Roble) and two on Sunday (Hawk Watch and Emerald Creek), all were having a special Valentine’s event with music, barrel tastings with a specially created desert, and specials on their wine tastings. These were all rather small wineries with less than 1000 cases per year. The weather was warm and the wines were pretty good. We came home with 6 bottles on Sat but only two on Sunday and one of those was half empty by the time we got home.
Today we will head to San Diego, staying in the KOA in Chula Vista.
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