Feb 10, 2020 - It is totally fabulous!

Well, we finally took possession of our new RV on February 8th. What a long day that was. We met with the financial guy at 11:00 and then had an appointment with our own personal technician at 1:00. He would take us all through the interior and exterior of the new RV. Our technical turnover could take as long as we needed. Ten minutes or 4 hours plus. Knowing my husband (the nuke) which do you think it took? If you guessed 4+ hours you were correct. Spike had read up on and studied all the new systems on board prior to the training but he...

Feb 10, 2020 - Pink ice cubes ?

We have a residential style refrigerator that runs on electric only, in the new RV. It is lots bigger than my old propane one and has the bottom freezer drawer. We cleaned out the ice bin in the casita and brought ice with us knowing that in a new frig you have to toss out the first bin or two, as it is contaminated. But we were not prepared for "pink" ice cubes! That's what we got yesterday. We quickly realized why and had to laugh. This RV came out from Indiana and it gets really cold there, so I'm sure they put RV anti freeze in all the...

Feb 8, 2020 - A one day delay....

Yesterday morning we found out that they do not have the RV quite ready for us. We had a few equipment additions and the delay in receiving the new windshield, has set them back a bit. But we are staying in their RV park for free, so no worries. We would rather have it delayed so that everything is right when we take possession. Plus we were probably kind of travel worn, so a day delay will insure we are better equipped to take in all the new info to run all these high tech systems. Like I have said before, boy have things changed since...

Feb 6, 2020 - We made it to Oregon!

We left Corning, California at 0800 this morning. It was cold and clear. So clear that we forgot to clean the windshield from yesterday. So the pictures today may have small pieces of bugs in them. Sorry. The traffic was pretty light with lots of trucks on the road with us. Going up over the mountains the road was dry at the beginning, and Lake Shasta was pretty full. We even had some sunshine for awhile, but as we got to the top of the Siskiyou's it got foggy. Not bad but its been awhile since we have seen fog. In my vast frustration...

Jan 16, 2020 - Canyonville, OR

We had planned to stay in Grants Pass our first night out as our son-in-law, Steve Spencer lives there now as well as several other friends. Mother Nature had other plans as snow fell in the area and made travel especially by RV impossible. We tried to cancel our reservations in Grants Pass and could never reach the RV park. We found out later that a tree had fallen across their access road not only blocking the road but knocking out power to the park. Needless to say we stayed in Canyonville our first night out. The food at the casino...

Dec 17, 2019 - Myrtle Creek Oregon

Good drive today, weather and traffic was just right. Not staying at 7 feathers as they have jacked up the daily rates much to high. Staying at Myrtle Creek - Tri City RV park for $18.00!!(Passport America rate) Its $40 bucks cheaper than the Casino. Silly Casino ,they lose our dinner money and our gambling money as well. More for us to blow somewhere else HA HA. Weather for the Siskiyou pass looks good for tomorrows crossing. Our landing pad will be just south of Redding Ca.

Dec 16, 2019 - Wilsonville Oregon

Stayed at the Pheasant Ridge RV Resort in Wilsonville.It was one of the better parks we have stayed at.I am surprised I missed this park in previous searchs for overnight stays,but we will be back for sure.It was nice to have electricity tonight for our heaters as last night at the casino was rather damp and chilly.Oh sure we had our propane heater running but it produced so much sweat on the windows from the propane one would think we were in a sauna.

Dec 4, 2019 - Grants Pass OR

The events coordinator found a couple hikes for us to do near Eugene, but we ended up doing only one. We headed out at about 10:30 to do the Spencer Butte main trail, the easiest of 2 options. We had a choice of either the “strenuous” 1.1 main trail to the summit or the shorter but “very strenuous” .6 mile option. We prudently chose the longer but less painful option. Once we got to the summit the views of Eugene and the University of Oregon campus, the Willamette Valley and Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. Rainier way off in the distance were...

Nov 22, 2019 - Eugene OR

The drive from Bend to just south of Eugene on Tuesday was 3½ hours of painless, other than a couple construction slowdowns and we pulled into the campground right at 1:00...and that was the extent of our day. Wednesday is packing and prep day as we will drive to near Seattle sometime Thursday and spend the night in a hotel so we can catch our 11:00am flight Friday. It’s supposedly a 4½ hour drive from Eugene but it includes going through Portland so it might be closer to 9. Our packing and prep day started with a haircut, Jersey Mike’s,...

Nov 12, 2019 - Bend OR

As I entered the info into the GPS for the campground in Bend it recommended what looked like an odd roundabout route...hmmm. I did a little research and found that the route I intended to take was a twisty-curvy-up-down route across the mountains, restricted to units in total length of 60’ or less. We are 61’ from nose to tail but over the mountains we went anyway – shhh! Don’t tell the Oregon Highway Patrol. It was, as predicted, mighty twisty and a bit of an upper body workout, but we arrived in Bend unscathed in 3½ hours. We set up in...

Nov 7, 2019 - Newport OR

We were out the door at 9:45 Wednesday and on our way to the Yaquina Head Lighthouse to get tickets for the 1:00 tour – the free tickets are first-come-first-served and apparently pretty popular – so we wanted to make sure we could get onto at least one of the 3 tours today since the weather was good...at least in Newport. We got our tickets and decided to head south along the coast to see if we could get to see those things that were fogged in on Monday. Great plan; poor results. Thank you fog. As we made our way south the weather was...

Nov 5, 2019 - Newport OR

Friday was a stay at home day for me and mostly for the boss. I had to hang around to wait for 2 packages that were being delivered and I had a phone call in to tech support for our internet service, so my wandering the area will be put off till another day. Michele did a post office and grocery store run while I installed the new step motor that arrived about 10:00. And I found out that in a strange coincidence, our nephew Eric got into town today here in Newport with a friend of his on a fishing trip so we will undoubtedly catch up with...