Almost to our winter home.

 We've made it all the way to Bullhead City! We are at our regular stop at Vista Del Sol RV Resort. We stop here all the time on the way up and on the way down, so we can go to River Dog Grill and get the best Philly Steak and Cheese sandwich in the world!

We also stopped in Sparks, NV at Sparks Marina RV Resort for a week. Had a little trouble with the car. The battery went south. Had to get it replaced. It had 99991 miles on it so, it was ready to change. We went to a bookstore and right next to it was an auto repair shop! That was a sign to change it. It only took them about 40 minutes to put a new one in. It was great.

In Sparks we hit some of our favorite places and took a little trip to Virginia City. On the way we saw some wild horses right on the road. Some people say the horses are a bad thing and it's against the law to feed or give them water.

Virginia City has some really cool old buildings from the late 1800's.

The Ponderosa bar had a mine tour right inside it. It had been a bank at one time.

We also stopped at Eagle Lake RV Resort in Spalding, CA. It's a really nice park. This time of year there are not many campers here. 

Big beautiful pine trees in the park. The lake is across the street. It looks like it's pretty shallow. A landing strip is also across the street where a couple planes had landed. One guy and a kid landed and stayed in the park in a tent. The park worker went and picked him up in a golf cart. 

The park had these fire hoses in the park just in case of a forest fire.

We also stopped in McCloud, CA for two days at a nice old park. This Brewery was right in front of the park. The beer and pizza were pretty good. It was a good stop and we left the mouse we had from Newport. The mouse was in our ceiling. It took a couple of days to get him, but he came out and Katie did see him. She was on the hunt to get him, but Peggy put the slide in and the mouse jumped down in the step well. I opened the door and he jumped out and ran like hell. That was the first mouse we've had in this motor home.

That park had this really cool Pizza oven. It was huge. I would've liked to try to cook a pizza in it. I think it would take a long time to heat it up. But it was cool!

We also stopped in Beatty, NV for one night and went to the Happy Borro and I had their world famous Chili Dog, it had 3 hot dogs on it.

So we're going to be back at our winter home tomorrow! Katie is ready to get there. She loves running around without her harness.

 

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Mad Dog Tavern!

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

   

Starting our trip home soon

Still here in Sawyer's Landing in Yaquina City. But next week we start our trip back to Fortuna Foothills. We're going to take 3 weeks to get there. We've made all our reservations to make it back.

The weather here wears us down here after a time. It's a little too cool for us, but we like coming here. We've hit all our favorite places. We went to Depoe Bay and had lunch at The Depoe Bay Brewery. I had the salmon fish and chips and Peggy had Chowder in a bread bowl. They were both great.

Depoe Bay harbor is the smallest natural harbor in the world.

This is the entrance to the harbor from the bridge.

This is how boats have to come into the harbor. They come flying in and have to make a couple of turns to get in. Sometimes it's only 7 feet deep.

 

Peggy getting a couple of good shots offshore.

The coast in Depoe Bay is pretty rocky.

Right after we got here a 40 foot fishing boat sank here in Newport. They were on the way into the Yaquina Bay harbor. Some young guy was just along for a ride and was lost at sea in the wreck. Sad story. Here is a link to the story Newport crab boat lost. Very interesting reading.

They towed in another boat that was salvaged right behind us one day.

They were pumping it out as they towed it up the river. It didn't look too good. We don't know the story on this one.

We had to do the tourist thing and go down to the Sea Lion Bar and have an expensive beer and see the Sea lions on the dock.

Our friend Dennis stopped by. The park where he's at in the port is raising the price, so after 12 years, he's moving to this park for a month. It's really hard to get in this park. He had to work hard on Mandy to get in. 

They had a BBQ and music at The Mad Dog Tavern for Labor Day weekend. The band was good and the food was killer.

The research vessel, R/V Atlantis came to the international dock just down the river from our park. 

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Beautiful flower right here on our site. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.