New and old friends on the road.

We've moved to a nice park in Waldport, OR.  McKinley's RV Park & Marina. 

 We have a really nice pull thru site with on a cement pad.

 The weather has been great for here on the coast. It's up to 61 and sunny right now at 10 in the morning.

You can rent a boat and all the gear to go crabbing. Lots of people do that here. But we wouldn't know what to do if we caught one, there are no crabs in Michigan.

They will even cook your crab for you.

On the way here we have to go thru a scary tunnel. The Garmin goes crazy on the way. But it's tall enough in the middle. We just hope no big rig is coming in at us.  

We met Gary and Tammy at the local Moose Lodge. Gary just retired, good for him.

They even rode there E-bikes over to our park.

 

We had a good dinner at Azul Mexican restaurant. The food was real good and the beer was cold.

We took a short drive up to Newport to meet up with Dennis and had lunch at the Barge Inn. Not sure why but I didn't take a picture of Dennis or his new motorhome. So I had to use this old picture.

We just changed some of our reservations after we found out that one of the state parks we were going to stay for 2 weeks did not have full hook up. We can not do that for 2 weeks!

BGE picture of the Blog.

Matt cooking some fish with "Slap yo Momma" spice mix. Slap yo Momma is good on popcorn too. Try it sometime.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

Out of the heat!

 We are out of the heat and loving it! We moved to Canyonville, OR to Seven Feathers RV Resort. It's one of the nicest parks we have ever stayed at. Big pull thru site with a ton of beautiful grass and a nice patio.

We only had one little problem here. An old dude in a class A came in and forgot his power cord! I don't know how you can do that. So he was running his generator. Then he got on the shuttle and left his generator running and went to the hardware! Well after 3 hours of his generator running he fixed his problem. It was real rude.

Seven Feathers RV Resort has a casino. So we had to try our luck. Should have saved our money. No good luck.

Canyonville is a really small town but it had one little bar in it. Canyon Creek Tavern. We had lunch there and it was good. We met some nice people in the bar.

They had this really strange house plant on the bar.

We saw some fire on the way.

I had to fix our microwave oven. Got up one morning and all the lights on the microwave were out. I checked the power going to it and all was good. So I took it apart and found a fuse blown. There is always something to fix in the RV.

We are now in Dune City, OR on the coast and the weather is a lot cooler here. It's in the low 60's and in the 50's at night. We have a nice site. You can't see the site next to you. We have the BGE out and using it almost every day. The sand dunes are right next to the park. A lot of ATVs in this park.

We just follow the sun to keep warm.

Sharon sent us a picture of Gracie. She is so cute.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Bacon, Chicken, Ranch Pizza. Try it, you will like it.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

 

 
 
   
 

Alway something to fix.

We are at Premier RV Park in Redding, California. We have a nice pull thru site. But it's hot here. Yesterday was 109. The average temp is 91, so it's a little higher than normal.

We did get a set of front tires just before we left Sparks.

The grass on the hill behind us is a quite dry. This whole state could go up in flames anytime.

We drove thru some places that burned last year.

But it's still pretty. Some SNOW for our snow lovers back home.

To stay cool we went to a place we've been to before. Shameless O'Leery's Irish Pub. I had the Mac 'n Cheese. It was really good. Peggy had the Stew and she loved it.

Good draft beer selection, but Peggy wanted a Smithwicks and they didn't have it. It was the first time they were out in 5 years, the bartender told us.  

At O'Leery's they like to use the shot ski for Irish whiskey shots. 

Ok, this is a funny story. There's always something to fix on the RV. First thing was the front burner on the stove. I ordered the parts online and that went well. Check that off. Then I had to replace the light switch in the bathroom. That went well. So check that off. Then my luck ran out. The furnace was a little more fun. I thought it was the control board. So I took it to a RV parts store and I watched him test it. It tested good. So he sold me the motor for $140. Peggy and I worked on it for 2 hours. It wasn't easy. After we got done it STILL didn't work! So I found a blown fuse replaced it and it STILL didn't work. So I took the board out again and looked at it really close and found the real problem! A little burn spot on the back of the board!

That was not good. I got my soldering iron out and fixed it. It was on the relay that starts the motor.

The motor is way inside and really hard to change out. So $140, one bloody hand injury, two hours of my time and a 5 minute solder job and it WORKS! Check that off. So, do not trust the RV parts guy again!

Before we left Reno, we went to a Diner, Drive in and Dives Place as seen on TV. Noble Pie. It was good but $50 for one pizza and two Beers was a little high. I guess after you're on TV you can charge as much as you want and they will still come.

I am not sure, but I think Katie likes to travel.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Pumpkin pie. On the BGE.

 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

  


   

On the move

 We have moved twice already. We stopped in Boulder City, NV. But it was so hot. It was 113. The park had low voltage and only one air conditioner would run! I cannot figure that out, we were 5 miles from one of the BIGGEST power plants in the U.S. Hoover Dam! So we left a day early and drove 340 miles to Hawthorne, NV. It was still 99 here. But the park had good power. We could run all our air conditioners.

                        Katie said it's too hot here. Lets go!

Hawthorne is the home of the ordinance Army base. They build all the bombs and missiles here.

They had a nice museum here. We took a good tour of it.

They have had some accidents here and some people have died working. 

Oh, I'm a little behind on the blog. We've moved again! We are in Sparks Marina RV Park. We like this park. It's nice and clean. The staff is out and blowing the lots clean everyday.

It's a lot cooler here, only in the high 80's. 

We're trying to get new front tires on the truck. But it's been hard to get them. One place, 30 miles away, said they will have them tomorrow so just come in at 2:00. So I drove 30 miles one way and of course they didn't get them in. Someone at the warehouse screwed up! So I called all around here and no dealer can get them this week. What a pain in the butt. Oh, and on the way I lost a hub cap. That will be a pain in the butt too!

Oh and one lug nut cover too.

Another fun thing is going to be, fixing our furnace. It stopped working in Lakeside. I think it's the control board. I'm going to try to get one at the RV dealer here in Sparks. Wish me good luck with that.

I did some self maintenance in Lakeside.

I had a colonoscopy. Everything was good. I'm on the 5 year plan!

Throw Back Picture of the Blog.

Yours truly, back in high school. 
 
BGE Picture of the Blog.

Terry using the JoeTisserie to cook a giant Prime Rib. I bet that was good. 
   

Live Happy and Always Go Big. 

 

    No one must be reading the blog. I don't get any comments!

  

Lakeside/Pinetop

 We have moved to Ponderosa RV Resort in Lakeside, AZ. We had a little problem getting into our site this year. I hit a car! It wasn't good. That's the first time I've hit something.

 We're in the same site as we had last year.

We have good insurance so it will get fixed at no cost to the owner. 

We went to dinner at a German restaurant, Munich Haus with our neighbors, John and Karen. They are building a house here in Lakeside. We took a ride to see their lot up in the mountains. Looks like it's going to be nice. John is retired from the Air Force. He retired as Lieutenant Colonel. But Karen still out ranks him on the home front. 

It's all about the places to eat for us. Here we are at Long Wongs - Two Hippies. It's a nice place to sit outside and have good food and cold Beer.

  

Peggy and Katie sitting outside enjoying the cool weather. 

One night last week it got down to 29. Now that's cold for us and we are still in Arizona!

I cooked some sweet corn on the BGE last night and it was killer good. Then cooked a Peach Cobbler for dessert. Sorry, no pictures.

We had a Memorial Day party down at the club house. You could get a Hamburger or a Hot Dog with all the fixins for $2. Now, that is cheap! We thought they needed to charge more. So we helped them out a little bit with that. We bought $50 worth of 50/50 tickets and we won! So we donated it back! That's the right thing to do. It's a nice park with a lot of nice people.

Katie loves to sit outside on her foot stool.

 Throwback Picture of the Blog.

Peggy and I at brother Terry's Wedding. Now that's funny.

BGE picture of the Blog.

I think they still have snow in Da UP. Heidi making chicken pot pie and dessert.

Live Happy and Alway Go Big.

 

Stop #2

 We've moved on to our next stop. We're in Williams, AZ at one of our favorite parks, Grand Canyon Railroad RV Park. This is a nice park with decent size sites. This is the first time we've had a back in site. We're as close to the railroad tracks as you can get. The weather is a lot cooler here with 30's at night and 60's in the day. The higher altitude of 6700 feet makes it cooler.

Our site.

This is our view from the rolling home.

We had a small problem with the Big Truck. We lost a seal in the drive axle. When you have big toys, you'll have big problems. But I got it fixed at the Love's Truck Stop right here in Williams. So I think we were pretty lucky. And it only cost $160.00!

Our friends Craig and Charlie were not as lucky as we were. This is their drive shaft from their motorhome. Total bill was somewhere over $4000.00. I feel for them 😢.

Short Blog, Katie is at the door and is demanding to go outside.

BGE Picture of the Blog.

Making Guadalajara beef on the BGE.

Live Happy and Always Go Big.