Back on Site in Banning

Well we have arrived safe and sound at the trailer, we are grateful to Mike and Andrew for putting it onto its site at the KOA Banning. We spent most of Friday 'sorting stuff', like 2 and half hours in the the bank trying first of all to find out why Wwells Fargo had closed our account, then secondly in Bank of America opening a new account. That plus unpacking, returning the hire car and stocking up at walmart neatly took most of our time. Still is was nice to do it in 100 degree warmth.Also had to open 'new toys', to start off our new trip I have greedily bought myself a new camera,A Sony A55, sort of like an SLR, but the mirror doesn't move. More practically, we plan to spend more time dry camping, so we have taken steps to make sure our electricity goies further. 1. we have installed a second battery increase the amount of electricity we can store, 2. we have bought some LED lights to reduce the amount of electricity we use and 3. we have bought a small (30W) solar panel to help maintain the charge in the batteries, so the three pronged strategy should improve our dry camping time considerably, and we always have the generator for big energy jobs, like the microwave and the A/C if we need it.