Our RV Adventures

My day started about 10:30 with hot coffee and some of Miss Terry’s warm lemon braid bread. A great start, let me tell you.

A little after noon, our daughter Brandi called to say hi. She had gotten off early and was on her way home to start the long holiday weekend. She said that our grandson Landon who just turned 9 months a week ago, is now wearing 18 month clothes because he’s so tall.

My grandson, the NBA star!

About 1 Jan and Terry headed into Coarsegold to the Peddler’s Fair and Flea Market at the Coarsegold Historic Village, after making a stop at the bank and the Radio Shack in Oakhurst.

While they were gone Nick and I got back to work on his tail light problem. Picking up where we left off yesterday, we found that the problem of intermittent lights from his coach was caused by a defective 3M Scotchlok inline splice that supplies 12 volts to the 5 wire to 4 wire converter box. The splice had come apart inside so that it looked OK, but caused the power to come and go. I replaced it with a new one and now we were good to go on the coach end.

To do a final test and check the brake light signal requires the coach to be running so the brake system is aired up and working. We decided to wait until tomorrow to do this and concentrate now on checking out the tow lights on his Explorer.

A little further inspection quickly found us two problems. A loose screw connection in the plug that connects the rig and the toad, and a bad crimp splice inside the left tail light housing.

Both of these were quickly repaired, but before we could do anything further, we found the battery had died in the Explorer, and since Jan and Terry were off in our truck, we had to wait until they got back to jump it.

Nick has had a running problem with this battery, and he says he’s ready to just buy a new one, so we’ll do that tomorrow at the NAPA Auto Parks in Coarsegold.

By this time Jan and Terry were back and everyone was hungry, so about 4:30 we all headed into Oakhurst, and, after a lot of discussion, ended up at the Sweetwater Steakhouse.

We had passed by this place a number of times and it was always busy. And now we know why.

Jan and Terry had Flat Iron steaks and Nick and I had our usual Ribeyes. And we all agreed they were great. I know mine was the best steak I’ve had in a long time. The place is not cheap, but it’s highly recommended.

And what would a great meal be, without a good cappuccino to top it off. So we did that too.

I’ve reposted some more of our travels up the Oregon and Washington coast last year.

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Thought for the Day:

Being a terrorist these days is like being a Chinook salmon. Your longevity depends on keeping away from Seals.

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Pig N Pancake…

Originally posted on May 19, 2010

We spent last night at Circle Creek RV Park just south of Seaside, OR.

It rained pretty much all day yesterday, but when we first got up this morning it was clear. But that didn’t last long.

Since we had a short 105 mile trip today, we decided to have breakfast in Seaside before we left, so about 9:15 am we headed over to the Pig N Pancake.

Jan had the Blueberry Pancakes with Bacon, and I had the Banana Pancakes with Orange/Pineapple sauce, and both were really good.

After breakfast we drove down to the end of Broadway on the beachfront. Seaside is a very popular tourist destination on the Oregon Coast and the town shows it.

Even the streetlights reflect the Seaside theme.

Seaside’s other claim to fame is that it was the end of the trail for Lewis and Clark in 1805. They stayed for almost a year before heading back east.

We left Circle Creek RV Park about 11:30 and headed north on US 101, and of course by then it was pouring down rain again.

But lucky for us it stopped right before we got to American Sunset RV Park in Westport, WA about 3 pm.

We were glad to find our good friends, Al and Adrianne Cox parked right across from us. We first met them two years ago in Fairbanks, AK and then got to see them again this past February in Tucson. They are workamping here this summer and it’ll be good to spend a few days with them.

They came over as soon as we got parked and we talked for about two hours. We also watched a crow trying to steal suet out of one of their bird feeders. Hey, crows gotta eat too.

They already had a park get-together scheduled for tonight so about 5:30 we went to down to the marina area to eat at The One-Eyed Crab, a recommended seafood place. Jan had the Wild Mexican Prawns and I had the Fish (Cod). The platters came with twice-baked potatoes which was also good.

After dinner we drove over to the seawall to watch the waves come over it. There is a storm off the coast which is causing all the rain and bringing a lot of really high winds with it. When I got out to take these pictures, I told Jan the winds were about 60-70 mph.

There was a TV camera crew there taping the storm, and when we watched them later on TV, they confirmed winds in excess of 60 mph. And on Mt Rainer, they recorded a wind gust of 118 mph.

By the time we got back to the park, the rain had slacked off and left us this.

But the wind hasn’t let up. I didn’t even try to put out the Satellite dish. It would have been hopeless. But the park cable works pretty good, so we have some TV.

More tomorrow…

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