Daily Archives: May 15, 2015
Things Are Looking Up . . .
We decided to go out for breakfast this morning, but while we were getting ready, there was a knock at the door. It turned out to be Stan, the service manager here at Affinity RV, with some pretty good news.
After I had questioned some of the items on the original estimate that was submitted to the insurance company, they had come up with a new, cheaper, faster estimate. ‘Cheaper’ in that the estimate has now been cut in half, because the body panels and mirror are now ‘used’ parts from Colaw RV Salvage in Carthage, MO. And ‘faster’ in that the parts should be here this Monday or Tuesday instead of waiting 5 or 6 weeks for new parts to be manufactured. I certainly don’t’ have a problem with ‘used’ body panels, since both the new and used ones will have to be painted anyway.
In fact as it stands now, they plan on moving our rig over to the body shop area on Monday. Actually that only means we’re moving just a couple of spaces to the left to be in that area. So nothing much will change for us. But during the move we’ll dump our black tank at the dump out front rather than having to use the leaky Blue Boy. All right for grey, not so for the black tank.
But it will hopefully mean that we might be out of here in a month or less, but unfortunately, not in time to take the rig to Illinois next week for our family reunion, so we’ll still be going in the truck.
So, really good news to start the day.
For our breakfast, we decided to try Cowgirl in the Kitchen, a nearby breakfast / lunch place.with 4 stars on Yelp. And it was easy to see why.
This was another one of those ‘nondescript’ places that you really have to be looking for to notice.
Like our other recent favorites, BiGA and Speed’s Hanger Deli, it’s a relatively small place with only about a dozen tables.
One thing we both liked was the coffee. You have your choice of regular or dark roast. Jan started with regular to my dark roast. But then after she tasted mine, her refill was also the dark roast. It was that good.
Although we could have ordered lunch, we were still in time to get breakfast so that’s what we did.
Jan got an omelet with all the fixing’s,
while I got the Trails End. The buttermilk pancakes were some of the best I’ve had.
Jan and I agreed that we could probably be happy just alternating between Speed’s Hanger Deli and Cowgirl in the Kitchen the rest of our time here, but then we’d miss out on telling you about all the other great restaurants we find.
So, yeah, we’re doing it just for you.
Leaving Cowgirl’s, we drove over to the PO to drop off some mail. Looking down the road we saw the entrance to the Point of Rocks RV Park, so I decided to drop off some Gypsy Journal’s and look the place over.
From the A-Frame design of the office, I suspect this was originally a KOA park. Driving around, it kind of reminded me the Bend-Sunriver Thousand Trails, or the Park of the Sierras near Yosemite National Park.
Many of the sites are cut back into the woods, and are widely separated from the neighbors.
There seems to be a lot of permanents here, but the place is well kept up and very nice.
Heading back to the rig, we made a CVS stop and then were home for the day.
So it now looks like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Just hope it’s not a train.
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Thought for the Day:
“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.” – Thomas Paine 1792
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