Frandy Park Campground (Kernville, California)

Published on November 3, 2017 | in RV Resorts & Campgrounds By Christopher Maitland |

Frandy Park Campground a.k.a Madden Voyage (Kernville, California)

November, 03, 2017

Frandy Park Campground
11252 Kernville Rd
Kernville, CA 93238
(888) 372-6399
www.frandy.net

This is it, the beginning….. the house just sold and closes in 42 days.

We will be starting our extended recreational vehicle adventure in our brand new Open Range Roamer 371MBH Fifth Wheel. So I headed up to Freedom RV in Fresno, California from Temecula, California with my brother Erik, and my buddies Jerald, Mark and his son Colton to pick it up and do the Pre-Delivery Inspection (PDI).

We arrived at Freedom RV at 9:00am (we left SoCal at 3:30am) to begin the PDI and for the most part everything was good. There were a few items that needed to be addressed but mostly cosmetic and I will schedule them at a later date when it works in our schedule and all parts will be at the dealer. We grabbed a quick lunch and we headed out about 1:45 pm, a little later than I had hoped, with a three and a half hour drive I was pushing sunset and I didn’t was to have to set-up for the first time in the dark.

The 5ver is very long at 42” and the longest trailer and first fifth wheel I have ever towed so I was a little nervous. We got it all hooked up and headed south on CA 99 towards Kernville. CA 99 is an absolutely horrible highway and is in desperate need of resurfacing. I don’t want to get too political but if the Satan government would stop steeling the gas tax, the highest in the nation, and actually spend it on the roads in California, California would have the best roads in the nation, especially with the 24 cent a gallon increase to the diesel fuel tax that was addd November first 2017.

Ask my wife, I research thing to death, and this trip was not exception I even Googles Earthed the drive from CA 99 on CA 178 to Lake Isabella via street view and it looked fine, but that was 33 white knuckle miles of two lane mountain roads with rock outcrops that I feared would take out the 5ver.

We finally made it to Frandy Park Campground in Kernville, California siting right on the Kern River. Since this we the first time docking the 5ver I selected a pull through site when making the reservations. With the help of my “crew” we got everything set-up right at dusk. (picture below is the next morning)

Not wanting to cook dinner for the crew that evening after a long madden voyage we opted to go to the Kern River Brewing Company’s “Original Brew Pub” for dinner and some craft beverages.

After a restful night, we got up, brewed coffee and made bacon, egg and cheese sandwich’s with bacon-jalapeño jam from the Kern River Brewing Company. All fulled up we decided to do a walking tour of Kernville. For dinner I tested out the outdoor kitchen and grill. Going from a large kitchen to an RV kitchen was going to be a learning experience.

We had grilled New York Strip Steaks, steamed green beans and loaded baked potatoes, which were enjoyed by all. We then headed to Kern River Brewing Company’s “The Backyard” for a pint or two before heading back t the 5ver for the night.

We headed out the next morning, taking a different route, CA 178 to US 395 a much less stressful route. It was a great first trip with the new RV, looking forward to the new adventures traveling and seeing this great country of our.

Cheers,

Chris

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About Christopher Maitland

Cooking (and eating) great food is my passion. I am a self-taught home cook on a culinary journey where I am constantly discovering new tastes from recipes whilst teaching myself to cook and most recently bake. I created foodiemadesimple.com blog, after encouragement from my friend and web master Jerald, as a means to document and share all my culinary experiences and recipes with everyone. I strive to constantly create great food, simply and provide pleasant memories for friends and family who benefit from this culinary endeavor. Well in early 2017 my wife and I decided to sell our sticks and bricks house and rent one in a neighborhood we thought we wanted to move to to determine if we wanted to purchase a fixer-uper, remodel and make it our own. Several months later my wife said I don’t to set up another house just to pack it up and move again. What do you think about getting an RV and then when we decide where to buy we will have a place to stay while we remodel the new house and not have rent and a mortgage. I thought this was a brilliant idea and thus began the process of looking for the right RV. I found the right RV after months and months of research and looking, a 2018 Open Range Roamer 371MBH. This model has a mid-bunk that I use would use as an office with a door that will shut, wife requirement so she will not have to listen to me on the phone. Then the next challenge my current truck a GMC 2500HD will not tow the new 5er. So a truck shopping I went. Problem solved a 2017 RAM 3500HD Laramie 4X4 Dully with a Cummins Diesel. So bought the truck and 5er, put the house on the market and stated the task of downsizing from a 3600 sqft house to a 410 soft 5er and 2 10X15 climate controlled storage units. The house sold in November 2017 and after running foodiemadesimple.com for 3 1/2 years, Jerald and I decided to start rvcookingmadesimple.com where I will take what I created in a rather large 200 sqft kitchen in my sticks and bricks and recreate it in an RV kitchen breaking it down and making it simple. I hope you enjoy.

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