Driving the RV on the California Highway No. 5 again, Xiao Yifei was in a good mood. This RV was rented by Xiao Yifei, and it is also a self-propelled A-type car, although it is not as luxurious as the one that Sao Bao bought for 400,000 yuan, but the basic functions are almost the same.

Xiao Yifei has just come into contact with this kind of car, this kind of RV like a bus can only be driven in China with a Class A driver's license, and here you can drive away as long as you have an ordinary driver's license. But for his own safety, he had to adapt first, when he rented the car, the boss asked him to walk around the parking lot a few times, plus buy full insurance before letting him drive away.

Among the highways connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles, Highway 1 has the best scenery, the most suitable for driving an RV tour, Xiao Yifei also wants to take this road, encountering good scenery along the way, there are generally RV camps, park the car at the campsite, play slowly around during the day, live in the RV at night, and when you are tired of playing, drive to the next attraction to continue like this. But Highway 1 was built too far away, compared with Highway 5, it is slightly narrow, and there are many curves and ramps...... It's better to wait until the technology is proficient in the future, anyway, there is an opportunity to enjoy it.

This time he went to Los Angeles, he planned to set the place for the tasting room in Los Angeles, and his parents would come over at the end of the year, and the little Apple siblings would also come over.

In order to reflect the advantages of the RV, Xiao Yifei planned to stop at the St. Louis Reservoir for one night. It's probably one of the attractions in California, but it's artificial, and the main object of visit is the California water conveyance project.

Don't look at California is now a very agricultural state, more than half of the vegetables and fruits in the United States come from here. What "fruit basket", "salad bowl", "vineyard" and other titles are added to one, but this was not the case before. It used to be said that most of California was bare and could only grow weeds. California has become as rich in products as it is now, and to a certain extent, it is all due to this California water diversion project.

California has strange precipitation here, with more in the north and less in the south. More in winter and less in summer. In order to develop agriculture, the California Water Transfer Project came into being. In fact, this project is very simple, which is to transport the rainwater and river water from Northern California to Southern California through canals, reservoirs, lifting stations and other facilities for agricultural production and urban residents. The beginning of the entire conveyance project is the St. Louis Reservoir.

The most important and flowing river in Northern California is the Sacramento River. The water from the river passes through canals and small lifting stations to the 2.5 billion cubic meter St. Louis reservoir. A small part of the water from the reservoir enters the Central Valley Irrigation Project, contributing to the agricultural production of the Central Valley. Most of the main canals continue south to the bottom of the central valley, passing through a series of lifting stations. Over the mountains to Los Angeles and south to San Diego, a source of valuable water for Southern California, which is suffering from severe water shortages.

It can be said that without this water diversion project, not only would California not be able to become an agricultural state, but even the more than 10 million people in southern California are estimated to be living in slums, lacking water and food, where is the beautiful Los Angeles and San Diego now.

Because the St. Louis Reservoir has a huge storage capacity, a huge area. As a result, it became a playground, and many people come here every spring and summer for fishing, boating, and camping.

Get off Highway No. 5. The traffic disappeared immediately, and the vehicles in the field of vision immediately dropped from 3 digits to 1 digit, and Xiao Yifei also had the leisure to look around. As far as the eye can see, it is a typical western scenery, the sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, but unfortunately there is not much grass. There are no cattle or sheep.

Soon the roadside sign showed that there was a KA RV park, the largest RV chain in North America. There are more than 450 RV sites in the United States, and more than twice as many campsites. Most of the scenic spots. You can see Koa's camp. At the same time, this KOA is also a joint venture of many car rental companies, and Xiao Yifei's rented RV will also be parked here this time.

However, he cannot enter the camp now because he does not have a vehicle to get around.

Although the self-propelled A-type RV is luxurious, its body is too large, and scenic spots and urban areas are basically impossible to go. It can't be like a trailer, where you leave your RV inside the camp and drive around with the trailer in front of it. Therefore, they are generally parked in well-equipped RV camps, and they need a separate vehicle when visiting scenic spots or entering the city.

In order to solve this problem, most people will tow a scooter in the back of the RV, as long as the scooter behind does not exceed the specified limit, which is in accordance with the law.

In the morning, when Xiao Yifei drove the navigator to the car rental company, the other party's manager gave him this advice. But Xiao Yifei has just come into contact with such a big RV, and he doesn't know how he is going to drive this kind of car that requires a license in China, and he only dares to choose Route 5 for the route, how dare he drag such a big navigator behind the RV. In full view, I couldn't put the car in the space, so I had to store it temporarily at the car rental company. Fortunately, in his plan, after arriving in Los Angeles, he will immediately return the car in a different place, and then rent a car at the rental company to use in Los Angeles.

Now there is no scooter, and there is a wide and flat No. 152 highway on the edge of the reservoir, so Xiao Yifei simply uses an RV to use a contemporary scooter. Driving past the dam, the car came to a fork in the road, looked at the map, and it led to a visitor center. Xiao Yifei turned the car onto the fork in the road and parked on the side of the road, throwing a warning sign behind the car.

Today, the weather is like this, and the lake is more than 6 kilometers wide, and at a glance, it looks like a pale blue powerade in a bowl. A gentle breeze blows and the water sparkles. The reddish-brown soil around the lake, the hillside covered with golden yellow withered grass, and the distant Cangshan Mountain and the blue sky and white clouds, make for a moving colorful landscape painting.

Xiao Yifei held the camera and clicked a few times at the reservoir in front of him. The photo was not enjoyable, so he climbed up the hill next to him, took pictures of the surroundings, and dragged out a tripod from the space to take a few photos of himself.

At this time, two whining sirens sounded from the bottom of the mountain, Xiao Yifei turned his head to look over, and at some point a police car was parked behind his RV.

Hurriedly retracted the tripod and walked down the hill with the camera.

When the two uniformed policemen saw him coming with a camera, they slowly let go of their right hands and pressed the holster. Xiao Yifei saw the seven-pointed star badge sprayed on the car, which turned out to be highway patrol officers, who are state police officers responsible for public and road safety within California.

"You're the owner?"

"This is my rented car, what's wrong?"

After checking Xiao Yifei's driver's license and rental certificate, the two asked kindly:

"Do you see the no parking sign on the side of the road?"

"I see, but isn't that a highway sign, this fork in the road shouldn't be a no-parking range."

"It's better not to park here, after all, the speed of the car coming down from the highway may be faster, and there is a parking lot in front of it, you can park there, it's safer."

Xiao Yifei wanted to say that there was a sign with a speed limit of 25 miles before getting off the highway, and if the other party's speed was really too fast and crashed into the RV, it was also his speeding. However, the attitude of these two policemen is indeed not bad, and the photo here is almost the same, so he cooperated and said:

"Okay, then I'll drive away right away."

As soon as he started the car, the policeman poked his head into the car door:

"Wait?"

Xiao Yifei turned off the fire inexplicably, are these two still ready to issue a ticket? Then Xiao Yifei is going to send a lawyer to talk to them. After a while, another younger policeman came running up and threw the warning sign at his car.

"You forgot about that."

Khan, it turned out that the warning sign he started to put behind the car was blocked by the police car, and he forgot to take it back.

"Thank you, two officers."

The two officers waved their hands, got into the car and left.

It's a pity that it's late autumn now, although it doesn't snow in California, and the temperature is still more than 10 degrees, but it's also past the season of playing in the water, Xiao Yifei can only walk around and take pictures. After touring the dam, Xiao Yifei drove to the KOA camp in the dark.

It's the off-season, and there are only six or seven motorhomes parked in the huge camp. Xiao Yifei slowly parked the car in the parking space, then got out of the car, followed the instructions, connected the wires, and then connected the water system. The water of the RV is a complex system, which is divided into clean water, domestic water, and sewage.

Purified water, of course, is drinking water, which is clean water that can be drunk directly. The cleanliness of domestic water is slightly worse and cannot be drunk directly, so it is also called gray water. These two water pipes flow from the camp into the RV for people to use in the car. The effluent, of course, is used water, also known as black water, which is discharged through a sewage pipe into the camp's treatment system and is the water that flows out of the RV.

Then connect the network cable and TV signal cable, and then you can enjoy all kinds of facilities on the car even if you turn off the engine of the RV.

Xiao Yifei sat and enjoyed a cup of coffee, after coming to the United States, he was forced to accept coffee at first, and then he felt okay after drinking more, sometimes it was more refreshing than strong tea.

Xiao Yifei first walked around the RV camp, admired other people's RVs, and found that they were basically trailers, and the trailers were basically high-horsepower pickups, mostly Ford Raptors. It's not any holiday time, it's the off-season for tourism, and the RVs parked here are basically bachelors, not families with their families traveling, and the whole camp seems very quiet. Then he walked to the camp management area, where there is a swimming pool, laundry room, fitness room, etc., it can be said that although the sparrows are small, they have all kinds of organs, and basically there are all the things that should be in the living quarters.

Using the kitchen utensils on the RV to make a simple dinner, Xiao Yifei found that the RV is only suitable for handling Western food or fast food, and it is not a good idea to cook Chinese food with a lot of smoke.

After the meal, lying on the seat, holding a glass of red wine, watching the sunset, Xiao Yifei's head was empty. (To be continued)