We pulled into Harmony Ridge RV Park near Nevada City in California gold country on Wednesday, May 18. Getting to our assigned site was a little bit scary as the park's roads were narrow, steep, most not paved and rutted to boot. Bruzer (our truck) made it like a champ and we got settled in time for the rain and hail to start. After a quick trip to the local Safeway, we came back home to find a white blanket on the ground around the 5th wheel. What fun....more bad weather!! We shouldn't be so upset as this is a great year for California water but it does make for difficult traveling.
At the campground office we were warned about trash and bears....don't leave it out or the bears will get into it and be nuisances. We never saw the bears but we did see their claw and teeth marks on the trash can lids....exciting! We kept Dude close during our stay at Harmony Ridge 'cuz he would be just a bite for a bear.
We had lots of rain and bad weather while we were in California's gold country but were able to sneak in a walk around old town Nevada City and a rodeo on our one sunny day. Nevada City is a typical early California town with neat brick buildings and being situated in the mountains with steep streets for an invigorating walk. Dude enjoyed meeting up with many other dogs and exchanging sniffs of their posterior regions.
The rodeo was small but exciting for us city-folks! We watched the rodeo queen be crowned, a female drill team on horseback, small kids (5-6 yrs old) trying to hang on to madly running sheep (funny!) and the adult rodeo classics....bucking broncos, calf roping, calf wrestling and bull-riding. What's a rodeo without a cowboy clown? This rodeo had one of those too!
We were glad to catch a mostly sunny day to depart Harmony Ridge and Ed had to work extra hard to maneuver Bruzer and the 5th wheel out of there without getting stuck. What an amazing job he did too!! Yay Ed!!