The end of the adventure

We drove through the dry Californian countryside on our way to Reno.  Here is a photo of our very last waterfall in the US, the lovely Burney Falls fed by snow melts which travel underground to come out partly in the central creek and partly in the rock layers on either side of the creek.

Here is a map of our travels on this year long road trip around North America.  We started in Tehachapi, California and have come full circle ending in Reno, Nevada where our Canadian buyer is completing the purchase and taking our beloved Tiger back to live in Vancouver, Canada.

We loved our journey through this continent.  We loved the people, the landscape, the scenery, the supermarkets, the food, the hospitality we received from so many people we met along the way.

We are not however happy with Fleetwood,  the manufacturer of our RV.  Not because of the RV, which performed magnificently.  Fleetwood as a brand name under the corporate persona Allied Recreation Group as it calls itself , has not honoured a 2009 recall to fix a faulty part.  ARG claims that as Fleetwood Enterprise Inc no longer exists as a company, they are not liable for paying for the parts and the service work - yet they are still using the Fleetwood brand name and have a Fleetwood Customer Service number (which appears to be unattended) on a Fleetwood website.  So, our advice is -be very careful when buying Fleetwood.

Here we are without an RV, which we have now sold.  We are standing with our earthly possessions outside the hotel in Reno. We are flying out of Los Angeles and leaving the US tomorrow.  It is the end of a wonderful year.  Back to our new reality on Monday 22 September 2014.