> Matt,
>
> No need to completely write off California. When my daughter lived there a few years ago, we found some very reasonable places to camp with full
> hookups even. Oak Park in Venture county only cost us $25.00/night (now $31.00). We stayed at River Park in Lompoc, for $20.00/night (now $30.00).
> Reasonable places can be had. I guess you don't want to do anything illegal, but I don't see how they can enforce their laws on weapons and ammo.
> Unless you are stopped and searched (unlikely) you can probably sail right through the state with whatever you have stashed in your coach.
>
> No need to go to CA though, the Southwest has a lot to offer. Arizona has elevations ranging from 140' to over 12,000' with desert, and tall pine
> and fir trees and everything in between. Utah has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world (as does AZ) Nevada and New Mexico also have a
> lot to offer. If you come to Tucson, you will start out at about 2300' and can drive to the top of Mt Lemmon, at over 9,000', in about an hour and
> cross through 5 climate zones from lowland desert to alpine forest.
Carl,
The plan was specifically a PCH tour that Mary has on her list. To add to the interest was getting to meet the boat builder friends in Port Townsend,
making the matches in Idaho and South Dakota. That last part of the schedule would be tight.
What is very scary to me is that an acquaintance was in California before Prop 63 and the blivet of new laws. He was pulled over by CHP officers.
They soon had a small army of officers that behaved like they had brown shirts and jack-boots in his motorhome. There was no respect for his
constitutional rights at all. He is on record as having a CCW in his state of residence. (He is an "Asset Recovery Officer" aka Repo Man.) That is
in the NCIC data base. While the pretense for stopping him was a defective taillight. (That turned out to be operational.) As that vehicle was
registered out of state and he was presumed to be carrying weapons they demanded that they be allowed to search the entire vehicle. I guess that they
hadn't heard of SCOTUS ruling that a motorhome is only a vehicle where the vehicle functions take place, the rest is domicile and so covered under the
4th amendment rights. He was not carrying anything, but he got left by the roadside with a coach that was undriveable. In parting, they did offer to
site him with something so that they could have the coach towed off the roadway if he and his wife could not re-stow and reassemble enough to drive it
off the road in short order.
While I am aware that what I have may not be the entire story. The individual reporting it used to be very positive about relocating to California
and no longer is.
If we do attempt this excursion, I will have at least one lawyer on speed dial.
Matt
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Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Still Loving OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
>
> No need to completely write off California. When my daughter lived there a few years ago, we found some very reasonable places to camp with full
> hookups even. Oak Park in Venture county only cost us $25.00/night (now $31.00). We stayed at River Park in Lompoc, for $20.00/night (now $30.00).
> Reasonable places can be had. I guess you don't want to do anything illegal, but I don't see how they can enforce their laws on weapons and ammo.
> Unless you are stopped and searched (unlikely) you can probably sail right through the state with whatever you have stashed in your coach.
>
> No need to go to CA though, the Southwest has a lot to offer. Arizona has elevations ranging from 140' to over 12,000' with desert, and tall pine
> and fir trees and everything in between. Utah has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world (as does AZ) Nevada and New Mexico also have a
> lot to offer. If you come to Tucson, you will start out at about 2300' and can drive to the top of Mt Lemmon, at over 9,000', in about an hour and
> cross through 5 climate zones from lowland desert to alpine forest.
Carl,
The plan was specifically a PCH tour that Mary has on her list. To add to the interest was getting to meet the boat builder friends in Port Townsend,
making the matches in Idaho and South Dakota. That last part of the schedule would be tight.
What is very scary to me is that an acquaintance was in California before Prop 63 and the blivet of new laws. He was pulled over by CHP officers.
They soon had a small army of officers that behaved like they had brown shirts and jack-boots in his motorhome. There was no respect for his
constitutional rights at all. He is on record as having a CCW in his state of residence. (He is an "Asset Recovery Officer" aka Repo Man.) That is
in the NCIC data base. While the pretense for stopping him was a defective taillight. (That turned out to be operational.) As that vehicle was
registered out of state and he was presumed to be carrying weapons they demanded that they be allowed to search the entire vehicle. I guess that they
hadn't heard of SCOTUS ruling that a motorhome is only a vehicle where the vehicle functions take place, the rest is domicile and so covered under the
4th amendment rights. He was not carrying anything, but he got left by the roadside with a coach that was undriveable. In parting, they did offer to
site him with something so that they could have the coach towed off the roadway if he and his wife could not re-stow and reassemble enough to drive it
off the road in short order.
While I am aware that what I have may not be the entire story. The individual reporting it used to be very positive about relocating to California
and no longer is.
If we do attempt this excursion, I will have at least one lawyer on speed dial.
Matt
--
Matt & Mary Colie - '73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Still Loving OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Twixt A2 and Detroit
