We packed up and left Gorman this morning on our way to Blythe, where we have a reservation at a KOA camp tonight. We have decided to once again avoid the Los Angeles area so took a detour that routed us north of all of that, behind the San Bernadino mountain range.
We took this route last year about the same time when we went down to the Anza Borega Desert to see the wildflowers just east of San Diego. It probably added 60-90 minutes to our trip, but it was a great drive and we encountered practically zero traffic on a Friday afternoon. 
We had to head back north for a bit to get to the best gas price this morning, then took H138 east past Lake Elizabeth and on through Palmdale. Rather than going totally around the San Bernadino Mountains as we did last time we came through here, we headed south and caught 215, routing us just north of San Bernadino then down to I-10, which takes us all the way to Phoenix. We didn't encounter any serious traffic and made it to our KOA campground by 6:30.
This is a very nice campground and it reminded us again why we chose KOAs on our cross-country trip two summers ago. KOAs are usually very nice. They are inspected by a KOA commission and we in fact met one of these inspectors as we checked out of this campground. The dog run area was beyond comparison. 
Pepé was thrilled to have camp-free peninsula to run on, and he loved the smells and obstacles in the K9 Kamp, which is an enclosed area they have at some KOAs for dogs to run free. But this place also had a huge lawn that went on forever. It could have been a different situation in high season, but there were no other dogs around so we let him off his leash and he ran his little heart out.
We threw together a little chicken parmesan dish for dinner and watched the huge moon rise over the river. Tomorrow we have a short drive so will leave a little later than usual, if that's even possible....
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