A
synopsis of or trip so far.
The
Good!
Spending
time with Mark: Matt & Dawn & Samantha; Michael & Lizzie
& Mathias. Our day trip to Bremerton for Mathias’s dedication.
Three
days camping at Rest-A-While RV Park on the Hood Canal.
Spending
6 days with Dick and Barbara on the Oregon Coast. Especially tasting
wine at the Youngbird winery and B & B on the deck overlooking
the vineyards from on high. Awesome!
Clam
chowder at Mo’s on the Newport Harbor waterfront and fried fresh
small clams which Barbara prepared. Super!
Long
talks by the fire late in the afternoon with good friends. Wonderful!
Then
on to Roseburg and a day with Gary, my Navy buddy and wife Judy,
Clyda’s friend from grade school. Beating the ladies 5-2 at
sequence. Perfect!
The
Bad!
Loosing
the water heater cover the first day out (second time since April).
The slide creeping out slowly each day and doing it again after I put
it back each time.
A
rock through our kitchen window from the lawn mower while camped in
the RV park south of Lynden.
Replacing
the black water dump valve.
The
city water check valve getting stuck and filling the water tank so it
came out the overflow vent (twice). We are using on-board water the
remainder of our trip home.
The
Ugly!
Blowing
one of my Goodyear Marathon tires on I-5 south of Olympia, WA.
Trying
to service the hydraulic pump by adding a cleaner to the reservoir.
Not a good choice. The slide quit working in Newport when I tried to
run it in so the Les Schwab mobile service guy could remount the tire
in place of my spare. He had to do it with the slide out.
Called
a Mobile Mechanic to help with the slide. Four and a half hours
later, we rounded up six guys in the campground and pushed the slide
in manually. It is now locked in place with 2 2x4’s on top of the
slide to keep it from going out. Same for the front slide.
We
are going home on a wing and a prayer.
Sunset at Winchester Bay, OR
