In an attempt to save money I have acquired camp grounds for a couple days. I have been staying at Mount Diablo State Park which costs $20 a day. This might possibly be worth it if they had showers and it wasn’t a 20 minute, 7 mile drive up the windy road which could easily be mistaken as a contour line and not a road on a map.

I paid $60 for three days and it has been more of an inconvenience than it is worth. The park closes its gates at sunset which lately has been about 8:30 here. Which if I am not in the gates by that time I’m not getting in. The first night I stayed out until 10 with my wife so I couldn’t even spend the night that first night. However I was able to clean everything out of the car so I had lots of room for sprawling out. Something I haven’t been able to do on the road.

I was planning on spending more time here but I don’t see the point. I pay $20 a night for a curfew and a place to pop a tent? I don’t really even need the tent. I wanted a place to cook food and take a shower, but can’t do either. I even explored the more fancy campgrounds and they don’t have any showers either. Then with California being as dry as it is fires aren’t allowed. So I am back to pondering…, what’s the point?

My wife has found one place that I can rent which is about $600 a month. It’s basically someone’s spare room that they have in the house, but at $20 a day this camp ground is the same price with none of the features an apartment would have.

Here shortly I will pull up camp and go looking for a gym membership so I can take a shower.