Got a call from Marty and the locksmith was able to make a key for the car, they even made another one for Dayna. Marty thinks he flushed the 1st set of keys down the toilet, all though, he said the toilet could barely flush a turd down so how in the hell could it flush keys down?
So next week we will have to go to a GM Dealer and get another automatic unlock gadget and the only other key that was lost (flushed) was the key to our truck in Bakersfield. We will have to get Kim or Danny to get another copy made before we return to California.
Hopefully by the end of next week we can go to Birmingham Washington for a week then I think I'll stay at a camp ground here in Sutherlin when Dave goes to Virginia, it was nice and safe and closer to Marty and the vet for Valley.
That's it for now again.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Sunday April 29, 2007 Haven't written for a week so I've got some catching up to do.
Monday morning we drove the coach over to Davis Cabinets and they got started on the work they needed to do. We drove back over, in the car, to Camp Monaco and hung out in the lounge where Dave could hook up his computer and work. Around noon we were suppose to go back over and check out the coach and see if they had any questions, but before we left Lee had told me to watch out for Brian's butt crack, and that when they had their coach worked on Vicki had gotten sick of seeing that thing. (Brian is the main guy that was doing the woodwork on our coach) Anyway, when we got back Brian was just going into the coach to install the new sliding drawers when I walked in behind Dave, OMG there must have been a good 3 inches of butt crack, too funny. I stayed outside after that, when possible, when we got back to Camp Monaco I had a good laugh with Lee and Vicki. We picked up the coach Monday night, and Davis Cabinets had 80% of the work done already, but we did need to bring it back on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Monday night, the gang, Stan, Ginger, Lee, Vicki, Dave and I went out to dinner at P.F. Changs for dinner and it was great.
Tuesday, we got the coach back that night and all the work was done with Davis and it looks great, now all I need is the washer/dryer combo and that work will be done.
Wednesday we just hung out at Camp Monaco and Dave worked on hooking up the computer system again.
Thursday morning we drove the coach over to the tile/carpet place, they were going to begin gutting it and removing the old carpet and some of the tile. Around noon we drove up to Marty's to move in with him and Dayna for a week. It ends up that Friday night Dayna and Marty were driving to Washington to be assistants to scuba diving students so really we will be house sitting for them. Late Thursday afternoon one of Valley's trips, by herself, outside looking for the cats, she came hopping back into the house on 3 legs, she was holding her right back leg up in the air. Oh no I thought not torn ligaments again, I hope, so we waited until the morning and took her to Marty's vet because she was still holding her leg up. Sure enough torn ligaments but this time in her right leg, it was like 5 or 6 years ago when Chelsea jumped on Valley and tore the ligaments in her left knee. Valley is almost 11 yrs old so we told the vet NO SURGERY, so she ended up wrapping up the leg and for the next 6 weeks I have to towel walk her. The vet is going to try a series of shots once a week to try and help the leg heal itself, will see. Yesterday, after Marty had called me and told me he had lost my car keys, Dayna and him had taken my car to Washington, Dave drove down to Junction City to the coach to see if we had the serial number for the keys for the locksmith. No such luck on finding it but on the way back Dave stopped at Pet Smart and picked up a vest for Valley to put on with handles on top so I can walk her around. Boy, that vest is much easier to hold on too then using a towel. Anyway, this morning we went to Marty's for breakfast and as of this posting I haven't heard from Marty so don't know yet if he got a key made. He had told me the locksmith said he could do it without the serial number so I guess I'll find out later. As soon as Dave shows me how to post pictures to my blog, I'll post pictures of Valley with her leg all wrapped up. That's about it for now, all we are doing is hanging around Marty's doing laundry, cleaning his house, watering his plants and garden, and making sure Valley stays still.
Monday morning we drove the coach over to Davis Cabinets and they got started on the work they needed to do. We drove back over, in the car, to Camp Monaco and hung out in the lounge where Dave could hook up his computer and work. Around noon we were suppose to go back over and check out the coach and see if they had any questions, but before we left Lee had told me to watch out for Brian's butt crack, and that when they had their coach worked on Vicki had gotten sick of seeing that thing. (Brian is the main guy that was doing the woodwork on our coach) Anyway, when we got back Brian was just going into the coach to install the new sliding drawers when I walked in behind Dave, OMG there must have been a good 3 inches of butt crack, too funny. I stayed outside after that, when possible, when we got back to Camp Monaco I had a good laugh with Lee and Vicki. We picked up the coach Monday night, and Davis Cabinets had 80% of the work done already, but we did need to bring it back on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Monday night, the gang, Stan, Ginger, Lee, Vicki, Dave and I went out to dinner at P.F. Changs for dinner and it was great.
Tuesday, we got the coach back that night and all the work was done with Davis and it looks great, now all I need is the washer/dryer combo and that work will be done.
Wednesday we just hung out at Camp Monaco and Dave worked on hooking up the computer system again.
Thursday morning we drove the coach over to the tile/carpet place, they were going to begin gutting it and removing the old carpet and some of the tile. Around noon we drove up to Marty's to move in with him and Dayna for a week. It ends up that Friday night Dayna and Marty were driving to Washington to be assistants to scuba diving students so really we will be house sitting for them. Late Thursday afternoon one of Valley's trips, by herself, outside looking for the cats, she came hopping back into the house on 3 legs, she was holding her right back leg up in the air. Oh no I thought not torn ligaments again, I hope, so we waited until the morning and took her to Marty's vet because she was still holding her leg up. Sure enough torn ligaments but this time in her right leg, it was like 5 or 6 years ago when Chelsea jumped on Valley and tore the ligaments in her left knee. Valley is almost 11 yrs old so we told the vet NO SURGERY, so she ended up wrapping up the leg and for the next 6 weeks I have to towel walk her. The vet is going to try a series of shots once a week to try and help the leg heal itself, will see. Yesterday, after Marty had called me and told me he had lost my car keys, Dayna and him had taken my car to Washington, Dave drove down to Junction City to the coach to see if we had the serial number for the keys for the locksmith. No such luck on finding it but on the way back Dave stopped at Pet Smart and picked up a vest for Valley to put on with handles on top so I can walk her around. Boy, that vest is much easier to hold on too then using a towel. Anyway, this morning we went to Marty's for breakfast and as of this posting I haven't heard from Marty so don't know yet if he got a key made. He had told me the locksmith said he could do it without the serial number so I guess I'll find out later. As soon as Dave shows me how to post pictures to my blog, I'll post pictures of Valley with her leg all wrapped up. That's about it for now, all we are doing is hanging around Marty's doing laundry, cleaning his house, watering his plants and garden, and making sure Valley stays still.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007 Lee and Vicki left this morning to go visit with a few of Vicki's relatives and Dave and I took off for Elkton to have breakfast at Marty's. Boy, it sure seems like that drive to Elkton from Harrisburg gets longer and longer. We did stop on the way and drove thru a campground where Valley and I will probably be staying at when Dave flies to Norfolk Virginia for a week. There are two campgrounds at the same exit, one to the left and one to the right. The only problem is the one to the left is $43.00 a night and the other one is $24.00, so can you guess where we are staying, it's a no brainer, I'm cheap. If it doesn't work out for Valley and I we can always go stay with Marty and Dayna, or at least that's what he told me.
I'm just hoping now that we get the coach all done so we can do a quick run up to Washington to see Rob, Kelli, Alex, Rosie and Bob. I was hoping to stay in Washington while Dave was in Virginia but to change his flight out of Eugene was going to cost us $500 and there is no way we are going to pay that. When we got back this afternoon we started cleaning out the file cabinet, that Dave had put in for his work, and the closet so Davis Cabinets can start their work tomorrow. We threw away so much stuff, shoes we haven't worn for a year and misc. stuff we haven't touched in a year. (we should have had a garage sale, one of the Monaco campers said to me) Anyway, that's about it for now, will update more later.
I'm just hoping now that we get the coach all done so we can do a quick run up to Washington to see Rob, Kelli, Alex, Rosie and Bob. I was hoping to stay in Washington while Dave was in Virginia but to change his flight out of Eugene was going to cost us $500 and there is no way we are going to pay that. When we got back this afternoon we started cleaning out the file cabinet, that Dave had put in for his work, and the closet so Davis Cabinets can start their work tomorrow. We threw away so much stuff, shoes we haven't worn for a year and misc. stuff we haven't touched in a year. (we should have had a garage sale, one of the Monaco campers said to me) Anyway, that's about it for now, will update more later.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Thursday, April 19, 2007 we are still here at "Camp Monaco". Today we got to keep the coach no work could be done until the parts show up and hopefully that will be tomorrow. The new bathroom door won't be here for 2 more weeks but the stuff for our back-up camera and new motor for our door sliding should be in tomorrow. Stan, Ginger and Katie left this morning for Seattle, Ginger has a sister there and since their coach is stuck in the paint shop they figured they might as well drive to Seattle and visit with her sister and stay for the weekend. Monaco put them up in a motel but because of the dog they have to stay in a smoking room, which they said smells really bad so they plan on coming back on Monday and I think that's when they get their coach back. All of us up until then have just been hanging out, driving into Eugene, going out to lunch and dinner or just hanging out in each others coaches. Oh by the way, last Sunday we went to Marty's for dinner then the show across the street at the winery. This guy use to open for Jewel, and Dave and I saw him last September when we were staying at the camp ground in Elkton. We left after the 1st half last September and we left after the 1st half on Sunday too. Stan, Ginger, Lee and Vicki said he was pretty good but they didn't want to stay for the 2nd half either. For one thing we had an 1 1/2 hour drive back to "Camp Monaco" plus I don't think they could take another hour of him either. Marty had left too because he said it was the same old stuff he has always done but when I talked to him the next day he said we should have stayed because the 2Ned half was all new and really good. I don't know if I can believe that, Marty has a weird sense of humor. (still love you bro) Sunday, Lee and Vicki are going to go visit some of Vicki's aunts, it's about 100 miles away so they might be back late of even spend the night. Dave, Valley and I will either hang out or go visit Marty. Don't want to bug Marty too much because when we have the carpet and tile replaced we want to stay at his place and that will be for about 4 or 5 nights and he might get sick of seeing us.
Monday the cabinet, and desk work is suppose to get started, the other day we went and ordered the washer/dryer combo. The wood work should take about 3 days, then on Thursday we take the coach to the carpet/tile place where they will start to gut the RV and replace with the new stuff, I believe they need it for about 5 days. It will look really beautiful when the work is done, thank goodness we had Vicki with us to help pick out the tile and carpet, we all know I have no taste for that stuff. Don't get me wrong, I think our coach is really nice as it is but having carpet just really sucks, with us living in it full time there is just no way to keep it clean.
I just can't seem to teach Dave and Valley to wipe their feet before coming into the place, then spilling the wine doesn't help either. (Dave with his hands and Valley with her tail, ha ha) We ended up picking a little darker tile for the entry way and up to the kitchen tile(which will stay the same as it is) the new carpet will be on the slide and bedroom. We did add a border between the 2 different tiles to break up the rooms, so to speak. We will have the living room, (one type of tile) the dining room, (carpeted) kitchen the original tile when we purchased the coach. We will post pictures when it's all done. All the work being done, plus the new washer/dryer will run us about 12k and that's a lot cheaper then buying that new coach, which would have cost us 100k. I just hate spending money with Kim's graduation and wedding coming up, but we do live in this thing and we have to have it fit our needs, plus who wants to leave any money for the kids, let them earn their own. ( Sorry, love you kids) Better cut off for now, see you on the next blog.
Monday the cabinet, and desk work is suppose to get started, the other day we went and ordered the washer/dryer combo. The wood work should take about 3 days, then on Thursday we take the coach to the carpet/tile place where they will start to gut the RV and replace with the new stuff, I believe they need it for about 5 days. It will look really beautiful when the work is done, thank goodness we had Vicki with us to help pick out the tile and carpet, we all know I have no taste for that stuff. Don't get me wrong, I think our coach is really nice as it is but having carpet just really sucks, with us living in it full time there is just no way to keep it clean.
I just can't seem to teach Dave and Valley to wipe their feet before coming into the place, then spilling the wine doesn't help either. (Dave with his hands and Valley with her tail, ha ha) We ended up picking a little darker tile for the entry way and up to the kitchen tile(which will stay the same as it is) the new carpet will be on the slide and bedroom. We did add a border between the 2 different tiles to break up the rooms, so to speak. We will have the living room, (one type of tile) the dining room, (carpeted) kitchen the original tile when we purchased the coach. We will post pictures when it's all done. All the work being done, plus the new washer/dryer will run us about 12k and that's a lot cheaper then buying that new coach, which would have cost us 100k. I just hate spending money with Kim's graduation and wedding coming up, but we do live in this thing and we have to have it fit our needs, plus who wants to leave any money for the kids, let them earn their own. ( Sorry, love you kids) Better cut off for now, see you on the next blog.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
April 14, 2007 we are here in Harrisburg Oregon at the Monaco Facility, as everyone who has a Monaco product calls it, "Camp Monaco". Stan and Ginger plus their dog, Katie, will be arriving here in a couple hours. We met all these folks, Lee, Vicki, Stan and Ginger last year when we were all here at Camp Monaco last August/Sept. time frame and have just kept contact with each other. We all still needed warranty work done so when one of us scheduled it the others decided to go at the same time so we could meet up again. Stan and Ginger are just arriving because they had other commitments when we joined Lee and Vicki in Susanville. Stan and Ginger live in Camarillo, and Vicki grew up in Simi Valley, what a small world.
Enough of the recap, we are here and tomorrow night we will all drive up to Marty's, again, and have dinner then go to the Winery across the street for a show they are putting on. Monday we will get together with the repair people and start the warranty work. Don't have any idea how long we will be here, Stan and Ginger are getting a new paint job besides what ever else so they will be here the longest, I believe. Vicki and Lee have minor stuff and need to be back to Susanville the beginning of May. Us, we have the somewhat minor warranty work but then afterwards we are having the carpet taken out and everything replaced with either tile or wood, new desk for Dave then the cabinet being fixed for a washer and dryer. (I'm sure I've mentioned all of this before in one of the other blogs, but, oh well) Dave also has to go back to D.C. again the 2nd week of May so I have No idea where he is going to leave Valley and I. I know for sure we will be back in Bakersfield by the beginning of June because of Kim's graduation.
That's enough for now, you can tell when nothing is going on because I just keep writing and writing.
Enough of the recap, we are here and tomorrow night we will all drive up to Marty's, again, and have dinner then go to the Winery across the street for a show they are putting on. Monday we will get together with the repair people and start the warranty work. Don't have any idea how long we will be here, Stan and Ginger are getting a new paint job besides what ever else so they will be here the longest, I believe. Vicki and Lee have minor stuff and need to be back to Susanville the beginning of May. Us, we have the somewhat minor warranty work but then afterwards we are having the carpet taken out and everything replaced with either tile or wood, new desk for Dave then the cabinet being fixed for a washer and dryer. (I'm sure I've mentioned all of this before in one of the other blogs, but, oh well) Dave also has to go back to D.C. again the 2nd week of May so I have No idea where he is going to leave Valley and I. I know for sure we will be back in Bakersfield by the beginning of June because of Kim's graduation.
That's enough for now, you can tell when nothing is going on because I just keep writing and writing.
April 14, 2007 we are still here in Winchester Bay until about 11 a.m. then we hit the road for Harrisburg Oregon to Camp Monaco. I left off with Dave flying out on Tuesday, Tuesday night Lee, Vicki and I went out to dinner at Griff's, which is a seafood restaurant right across the bay from us. Wednesday it rained just about all day, we just hung around the coaches all day, Lee fixed breakfast for all of us then for lunch we went to Griff's again, love that place. For dinner we just had crackers, salami, turkey, crackers and cheese, Dave got back to the coach about midnight. On Thursday morning Dave and I did some running around, post office, bank, grocery store while Vicki was having her hair done. For lunch we went to Griff's, again, Dave hadn't gotten to go, then we drove to Coos Bay and just did some site seeing. For dinner we did shrimp and scallops, some of Marty's bread, rice and squash, great dinner.
Friday we left at 9 a.m. and headed for Newport, Oregon to go to the aquarium there, what a really nice place, and a hell of a drive to get there. We didn't get back to the coaches until 5 pm, our poor dogs were stuck in the coaches all day. When we got back we walked them around a little bit, fed them dinner then headed for Elkton Oregon to have a Mexican Dinner at Marty's, which was great and way too much to eat. We then got back to the coaches at 9:30 pm and it started raining, Valley doesn't like getting wet so she just ran out real fast did her thing and ran back into the coach.
Friday we left at 9 a.m. and headed for Newport, Oregon to go to the aquarium there, what a really nice place, and a hell of a drive to get there. We didn't get back to the coaches until 5 pm, our poor dogs were stuck in the coaches all day. When we got back we walked them around a little bit, fed them dinner then headed for Elkton Oregon to have a Mexican Dinner at Marty's, which was great and way too much to eat. We then got back to the coaches at 9:30 pm and it started raining, Valley doesn't like getting wet so she just ran out real fast did her thing and ran back into the coach.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
April 10, 2007 Winchester Bay, Oregon
I left off on the last blog that we were going to Vicki's Dads house for Easter dinner, which we did had a great dinner and fun conversations. What a really nice family she has, I mainly stayed in the kitchen talking to Vicki's sister and Step mom.
We got going on Monday morning about 9 am and stopped in Grants Pass, Oregon at Rogue Valley Overniters. Dave and I got going this morning at 6 am because we needed to get to Winchester Bay RV Resort to get set-up before Dave had to drive to Eugene to catch his flight to D.C. I don't know how to set-up the rig yet for camping plus I sure as hell wasn't going to drive these Oregon winding roads. We were really a head of time so we did stop in Elkton and see my brother, Marty. His restaurant wasn't open but he came down with his computer so Dave could help him a little and visit before we got back on the road again. While there, of course, we got some pastries from him and some wheat sour dough bread, yum. Winchester Bay RV Resort is great, Lee got us reservations facing the harbor, the sun is out and I've already gone bike riding and walking Valley around. Lee and Vicki arrived around 2pm, they saw a herd of Elk (around 60 of them) and stopped to watch them in the field. We heard the weather has been really bad here and today was the first nice day they have had in the last couple weeks, let's hope it stays that way, but this is Oregon. Dave just called, and his flight was just getting really to take off, he flies back into Eugene late tomorrow night and should spend the night there and drive back Thursday morning. That's about it for now.
I left off on the last blog that we were going to Vicki's Dads house for Easter dinner, which we did had a great dinner and fun conversations. What a really nice family she has, I mainly stayed in the kitchen talking to Vicki's sister and Step mom.
We got going on Monday morning about 9 am and stopped in Grants Pass, Oregon at Rogue Valley Overniters. Dave and I got going this morning at 6 am because we needed to get to Winchester Bay RV Resort to get set-up before Dave had to drive to Eugene to catch his flight to D.C. I don't know how to set-up the rig yet for camping plus I sure as hell wasn't going to drive these Oregon winding roads. We were really a head of time so we did stop in Elkton and see my brother, Marty. His restaurant wasn't open but he came down with his computer so Dave could help him a little and visit before we got back on the road again. While there, of course, we got some pastries from him and some wheat sour dough bread, yum. Winchester Bay RV Resort is great, Lee got us reservations facing the harbor, the sun is out and I've already gone bike riding and walking Valley around. Lee and Vicki arrived around 2pm, they saw a herd of Elk (around 60 of them) and stopped to watch them in the field. We heard the weather has been really bad here and today was the first nice day they have had in the last couple weeks, let's hope it stays that way, but this is Oregon. Dave just called, and his flight was just getting really to take off, he flies back into Eugene late tomorrow night and should spend the night there and drive back Thursday morning. That's about it for now.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
April 8, 2007 HAPPY EASTER.
Yesterday we went driving around with Lee and Vicki, we drove around one of the lakes here and saw the devastation the resent fires have done, what a shame. We then stopped at the new rest area here and had a picnic lunch and looked over another lake that is really a mud hole. After that we drove back in town and they dropped me off so I could get my nails done. Dave came in later, while I was still there, and had a pedicure. That night we went out for a real nice dinner and just had a great relaxing day.
Today we went out for breakfast then Vicki went on to church. Lee and Dave started getting the coaches ready for hitting the road tomorrow morning. I got all my laundry done and cleaned the inside of the coach. Tonight we will be going to Vicki's Dad's for Easter Dinner then tomorrow we head out for Oregon. That's about it, it was really a nice relaxing couple days of rest for Dave, Valley and I. Susanville is a nice small town, great for visiting but couldn't stay here for more then 2 weeks I think for me, anyway.
Yesterday we went driving around with Lee and Vicki, we drove around one of the lakes here and saw the devastation the resent fires have done, what a shame. We then stopped at the new rest area here and had a picnic lunch and looked over another lake that is really a mud hole. After that we drove back in town and they dropped me off so I could get my nails done. Dave came in later, while I was still there, and had a pedicure. That night we went out for a real nice dinner and just had a great relaxing day.
Today we went out for breakfast then Vicki went on to church. Lee and Dave started getting the coaches ready for hitting the road tomorrow morning. I got all my laundry done and cleaned the inside of the coach. Tonight we will be going to Vicki's Dad's for Easter Dinner then tomorrow we head out for Oregon. That's about it, it was really a nice relaxing couple days of rest for Dave, Valley and I. Susanville is a nice small town, great for visiting but couldn't stay here for more then 2 weeks I think for me, anyway.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
April 7, 2007 1st let me start out with saying "Happy Birthday" to my brother, Marty.
We got to Susanville Calif. yesterday and are now staying at Mountain View RV Park, what a nice place. We are parked next to our friends Lee and Vicki and their dog Fleetwood. Yesterday they took us around town and showed us the sites, small town, they say the population is 17,500 but that number includes the 5,000 inmates at the prison. Lee BBQ'd chicken for dinner for all of us, they figured we were tired from all the driving we had been doing, and boy were they right. It was so nice to get up this morning have coffee relax then take Valley on a 6 mile walk. We will all leave here on Monday morning headed for Oregon, we plan on being in Winchester Bay Oregon on Tuesday mid morning and staying there until Saturday morning. After that we will be headed for Harrisburg Oregon to the Monaco plate so we all can have our coaches worked on, Stan and Ginger plan on meeting us there.
We are going to be leaving soon to do more site seeing so let me tell the slide story.
The other day when we parked one of the back slides would only come out a little bit then stop, Dave pulled it back in and tried it again. It would go a little bit then stop, so Dave then decided to help it slide all the way out. This is the slide at the foot of our bed, anyway, as he was pushing the button for the slide he used his other arm to help push out the slide. Next thing we heard this loud sound, the slide jerked and slide out. Dave stopped pushing the button and we ran outside to see what damage had been done. We couldn't see anything wrong with the outside of the slide so Dave came back in and started the slide again when I heard him say "Oh Shit". What had happened is one of the doors on the cabinet had opened up in the slide while we were driving, and you can't see it because it is in the slide. The slide was being stopped by the door, so when Dave helped by pushing it shattered the door and bent the hinges. Luckily we were able to get the busted door out of the way then we could open the slide back up. So it's a lesson to all, if the slide doesn't open check very carefully before you help force it open.
We got to Susanville Calif. yesterday and are now staying at Mountain View RV Park, what a nice place. We are parked next to our friends Lee and Vicki and their dog Fleetwood. Yesterday they took us around town and showed us the sites, small town, they say the population is 17,500 but that number includes the 5,000 inmates at the prison. Lee BBQ'd chicken for dinner for all of us, they figured we were tired from all the driving we had been doing, and boy were they right. It was so nice to get up this morning have coffee relax then take Valley on a 6 mile walk. We will all leave here on Monday morning headed for Oregon, we plan on being in Winchester Bay Oregon on Tuesday mid morning and staying there until Saturday morning. After that we will be headed for Harrisburg Oregon to the Monaco plate so we all can have our coaches worked on, Stan and Ginger plan on meeting us there.
We are going to be leaving soon to do more site seeing so let me tell the slide story.
The other day when we parked one of the back slides would only come out a little bit then stop, Dave pulled it back in and tried it again. It would go a little bit then stop, so Dave then decided to help it slide all the way out. This is the slide at the foot of our bed, anyway, as he was pushing the button for the slide he used his other arm to help push out the slide. Next thing we heard this loud sound, the slide jerked and slide out. Dave stopped pushing the button and we ran outside to see what damage had been done. We couldn't see anything wrong with the outside of the slide so Dave came back in and started the slide again when I heard him say "Oh Shit". What had happened is one of the doors on the cabinet had opened up in the slide while we were driving, and you can't see it because it is in the slide. The slide was being stopped by the door, so when Dave helped by pushing it shattered the door and bent the hinges. Luckily we were able to get the busted door out of the way then we could open the slide back up. So it's a lesson to all, if the slide doesn't open check very carefully before you help force it open.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
April 5, 2007 Let me start off with saying "Happy Birthday" to Dave's son Jeff. We have now landed in Sparks Nevada and are staying in the parking lot at the Nugget Casino. I did at least half of the driving today, it's getting easier and easier, still not up for trying to drive the busy city streets yet. I said in my last blog that I was going to tell you a story about our one slide but that's going to have to wait because since we are parked in the parking lot we have no hook-ups so we have to keep down on the power we use. So we will leave in the morning for Susanville and will be at a campsite there with full hook-up I'll have to wait and write more there.
Bye for now.
Bye for now.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
April 4, 2007 we are now in Ogden Utah staying at the Century RV Park, not a bad looking place, there are a lot of people that live here but at least the place is kept up. The bad thing is it is right next to the Freeway and the Freeway is all torn up with construction work so it was fun getting here. We will get headed out about 6 am tomorrow morning and try and beat some of the traffic, but I don't think that will happen.
We went out to dinner with my Uncle Renzo and his son and daughter-in-law to this great place called Timberline. I'm telling you all now, you must stop and eat at this place, it's not cheap but the amount they feed you is well worth the money. When I say the amount they feed you I'm just talking about the meat portion of your meal. My T-bone was an inch thick and covered just about the whole plate, Dave's prime rib was just about the biggest I've seen. Along with the meal you get bread, dinner salad and a choice of one item with the meat, chicken, ribs, or seafood you choose for dinner. n Valentine was in seventh heaven when she saw the T-bone bone they I gave her when we got back, she was outside the RV for half an hour chewing on it. Once she had it pretty clean I let her bring it in the RV and she chewed for another 1/2 hour.
Enough of that, will write tomorrow when we get to Reno. Plus, I have a story to tell about our one slide on our RV that wouldn't open.
We went out to dinner with my Uncle Renzo and his son and daughter-in-law to this great place called Timberline. I'm telling you all now, you must stop and eat at this place, it's not cheap but the amount they feed you is well worth the money. When I say the amount they feed you I'm just talking about the meat portion of your meal. My T-bone was an inch thick and covered just about the whole plate, Dave's prime rib was just about the biggest I've seen. Along with the meal you get bread, dinner salad and a choice of one item with the meat, chicken, ribs, or seafood you choose for dinner. n Valentine was in seventh heaven when she saw the T-bone bone they I gave her when we got back, she was outside the RV for half an hour chewing on it. Once she had it pretty clean I let her bring it in the RV and she chewed for another 1/2 hour.
Enough of that, will write tomorrow when we get to Reno. Plus, I have a story to tell about our one slide on our RV that wouldn't open.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Still April 3, and we just arrived in a KOA Kampground in Laramie, Wyoming. Dave did all the driving today, while he was doing his phone calls and emails. He has gotten really good at working on his computer while driving, I don't really care for it, I can do some of the driving, but I really believe he likes doing it. He likes to brag to the other guys about it, which I know this will piss him off that I said it, but oh well. After not feeling 100% yesterday and taking over the driving, my attitude now is I can drive it's no big deal. The only thing is when it comes to city driving I might have a heart attack or cause one hell of an accident but if it comes up, oh well.
With Dave's work meetings today we just found out that he has to go to Washington DC next week while we are at Winchester Bay Oregon with our friends from Susanville, Vicki and Lee. He just got done booking his flight information which is flying out of Eugene Oregon on the 10th at 5pm then flies back on the 11th from DC at 6pm and gets back to Eugene at 10pm, boy is he going to be tired.
Anyway, the drive thru Colorado was pretty, there is snow covered mountains to look at, when stopping for fuel the wind was really blowing and cold, needless to say, Valley didn't get a lot of time to walk around and do her thing. Tomorrow we head out for Ogden Utah and will see my Uncle Renzo and have dinner together hopefully, that's it for now.
With Dave's work meetings today we just found out that he has to go to Washington DC next week while we are at Winchester Bay Oregon with our friends from Susanville, Vicki and Lee. He just got done booking his flight information which is flying out of Eugene Oregon on the 10th at 5pm then flies back on the 11th from DC at 6pm and gets back to Eugene at 10pm, boy is he going to be tired.
Anyway, the drive thru Colorado was pretty, there is snow covered mountains to look at, when stopping for fuel the wind was really blowing and cold, needless to say, Valley didn't get a lot of time to walk around and do her thing. Tomorrow we head out for Ogden Utah and will see my Uncle Renzo and have dinner together hopefully, that's it for now.
April 3, 2007 what a rough night in Kansas. The wind really started blowing at 2am and didn't let up. All I kept thinking was tornado and at 4am when I heard a horn blowing I thought for sure it was a warning signal, but it was only a train whistle. We hit the road pretty soon and plan the next stop in Wyoming where we hope we don't hit snow, there is a cold front coming today. I did drive for 2 hours yesterday and I guess I'll drive some more today, don't like to but I can do it, just don't want Dave getting used to me driving all the time. (just kidding)
Will write later. By the way, isn't it a bummer that Donald Trump didn't get his head shaved?
Will write later. By the way, isn't it a bummer that Donald Trump didn't get his head shaved?
Monday, April 02, 2007
April 2, 2007 sorry I haven't written for a while, but while in Branson we seemed to stay busy and I never got the chance to write my blog. Anyway, right now we are in Russell Kansas staying at Triple J Campground. Very small campground but we are only staying one night then on the road again tomorrow.
We got to Branson Missouri on March 30 and stayed at Plantation at Fall Creek Resort, what a great place, I highly recommend it. They have the campsite, apartments, time shares and so much more. In the morning they have a breakfast buffet for only $3.99 and a lunch buffet for $5.99. Saturday morning we did go to the breakfast buffet once and it was very nice. They have activities all day long, swimming pools indoors, games, golf ect. I really liked the place. Another place I highly recommend is Branson Missouri, what a great place to visit, but you need about a month to see everything. What a party, place all family orientated, entertainment during the day and night, and they must have 7 miniature golf courses in town. Check it out on their website. Saturday at 2pm we went to #1 hits of the 60's show, my nephew Spanky should have been on that stage, just a bunch of young and a little bit older singers singing all the #1 hits from the 60's. They sang over 100 songs in the 1hr and 45 min. they were on the stage. My nephew had a better singing voice then some of them. I shouldn't say that, this was only the 7th performance they had done together. Dave got to talk to one of the ladies there and she said they hire by the singing voices and worry about their dancing abilities later. My nephew can do both, sing and dance, he really should look into trying out his stage performance there.
Back to what we did, we did the afternoon show at 2 then at 8pm we went to the Shanghai Circus, good show but I'm telling you peoples bodies should not bend in those positions. On Sunday, April 1st, it was our 29th wedding anniversary, not a good day. I woke up at 2am freezing to death, I guess I got some kind of flu bug. I managed to go out to breakfast and got some oatmeal and toast down then went back to the coach and just was sleeping all day. Dave did a little running around, then about 4 I got up and got dressed and tried to act normal but wasn't feeling that great but better then what I had felt in the morning. We had show tickets to the Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater at 8pm and had planned on a nice dinner before hand so at 6 we left for Landry's Seafood House. We had a little appetizer, which we hardly touched before our salad was delivered, I had 2 small bites of my salad then I broke out into a sweat and told Dave I was going to faint, next thing I knew I was surrounded by people asking me if I knew my name, if I was alright, I was saying what the hell is going on? Dave told me I had a seizure and we were going to emergency. We went to the hospital were there 3 hours and it was the best I felt all day. The doctor said all my vitals were good, no fever, blood looked good except low on potassium, I think what had happened was my fever finally broke. We got back to the coach at 10:30 pm, with our Wendy's take out food, what a great anniversay.
Oh well enough for now, I think I'm all caught up.
We got to Branson Missouri on March 30 and stayed at Plantation at Fall Creek Resort, what a great place, I highly recommend it. They have the campsite, apartments, time shares and so much more. In the morning they have a breakfast buffet for only $3.99 and a lunch buffet for $5.99. Saturday morning we did go to the breakfast buffet once and it was very nice. They have activities all day long, swimming pools indoors, games, golf ect. I really liked the place. Another place I highly recommend is Branson Missouri, what a great place to visit, but you need about a month to see everything. What a party, place all family orientated, entertainment during the day and night, and they must have 7 miniature golf courses in town. Check it out on their website. Saturday at 2pm we went to #1 hits of the 60's show, my nephew Spanky should have been on that stage, just a bunch of young and a little bit older singers singing all the #1 hits from the 60's. They sang over 100 songs in the 1hr and 45 min. they were on the stage. My nephew had a better singing voice then some of them. I shouldn't say that, this was only the 7th performance they had done together. Dave got to talk to one of the ladies there and she said they hire by the singing voices and worry about their dancing abilities later. My nephew can do both, sing and dance, he really should look into trying out his stage performance there.
Back to what we did, we did the afternoon show at 2 then at 8pm we went to the Shanghai Circus, good show but I'm telling you peoples bodies should not bend in those positions. On Sunday, April 1st, it was our 29th wedding anniversary, not a good day. I woke up at 2am freezing to death, I guess I got some kind of flu bug. I managed to go out to breakfast and got some oatmeal and toast down then went back to the coach and just was sleeping all day. Dave did a little running around, then about 4 I got up and got dressed and tried to act normal but wasn't feeling that great but better then what I had felt in the morning. We had show tickets to the Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater at 8pm and had planned on a nice dinner before hand so at 6 we left for Landry's Seafood House. We had a little appetizer, which we hardly touched before our salad was delivered, I had 2 small bites of my salad then I broke out into a sweat and told Dave I was going to faint, next thing I knew I was surrounded by people asking me if I knew my name, if I was alright, I was saying what the hell is going on? Dave told me I had a seizure and we were going to emergency. We went to the hospital were there 3 hours and it was the best I felt all day. The doctor said all my vitals were good, no fever, blood looked good except low on potassium, I think what had happened was my fever finally broke. We got back to the coach at 10:30 pm, with our Wendy's take out food, what a great anniversay.
Oh well enough for now, I think I'm all caught up.
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