We had been looking and talking about getting a cabin in the mountains or at the beach, or just even selling our home and moving someplace else. To travel or not, how to travel, by car or motorcycle. Lots of questions, and no answers.
Ok lets try traveling, camper van, or pickup with camper? Or a van and through sleeping bags in the back? more questions and no answers. Jay can't stand up in a camper van, I don't want to be crawling up in the back of a pickup camper.....So maybe a motorhome....maybe not....if we get a motorhome, and then find a cabin or another place to live....What then?..more questions, no answers. Whatever we purchase Jay needs to be able to drive it...with such long legs and being 6ft 7in, it is difficult for him to find something that he fits into....head room and leg room is lacking in most vehicles. We started looking and had Jay sitting in many different kinds of vehicles, camper vans short on head room and leg room....motorhome....again most are short on head and leg room. We found a few motorhomes that had tall ceilings, but no leg room for driving. Finally we found a motorhome that had enough head and leg room for Jay, and a king size bed in the back......So in finding this motorhome, we found our cabin, but on wheels. So we have a 2nd home. When we purchased this RV Good Sam roadside assistance was included. We decided to take a trip, heading south along the coast, we took a corner a little too fast and a drawer came shooting out.....hanging on one of the roller rails. I went back to try and take care of this....but needed Jay to stop and come help me....He was able to get the drawer back in the cabinet, and it works ok.....As we take off from this stop, we hit a pothole causing the lotion bottle in the bathroom to fall and break. Lotion was all over the bathroom, a slippery mess. As this first day ends, we pull in to South Beach State Park to camp for the night. As Jay is backing the RV in, I noticed a flat tire on the passenger outside dually. I looked up the number we were given for roadside assistance, they can't find us in the system, and a service call to fix the tire is $175, I give them the Visa number and approx 2 hours later someone shows up from les schwab. He does his thing, checks the tire, puts air in it, says all is good, and he is on his way (All of this time we are under the impression there is no spare tire, we had asked many times about).
Day 2 we are on the road again. We stop at Sunset Bay State Park for lunch and to stretch our legs. In doing my walk, I noticed a big bump on the side of the tire. Since we don't want to pay for another service call, I called a local les schwab (only 6 miles away) and we drove there. Again not thinking we had a spare tire, we purchased a tire ($239), as they start to put the new tire on, they tell us we have a spare....OMG...They put the spare on, and the new tire goes to the spare position. The tire with the bump had a split bead, they thought it was done when the tire was put on the wheel, and it had just taken this long to cause a problem.
We continue our trip, staying that night at Bullards Beach State Park....very quiet, mostly retired peeps.
New day....maybe tire problems are over.
Not in a hurry the next morning, light breakfast, and just kicking back.....at lunch time we pack up to go.....Lunch was at Face Rock Creamery, it is the new cheese factory in Bandon, Or. Cheese is wonderful, we tried the Vampire Slayer (triple garlic to keep the mosquitoes away), aged cheddar, and garlic basil, we were not disappointed in our selections. On down the coast we had wanted to spend the night at Mill Creek campground in the Redwoods. It was still closed for the season. Found another park almost as interesting a few miles down the road Elk Prairie campground, this place was "boon-
docking" our first time. Still learning about this RV, and how everything works, could not get the the microwave to work. The generator would run, but no power to any plugins. After reading the manual, we found that the generator has a breaker on it.....flip the breaker and everything works.
The next day was lunch at Samoa Cookhouse (the destination), again not disappointed, Short ribs, Spanish rice, baked beans, three bean salad, and not to forget chicken veg soup and toss salad, with carrot cake with cream cheese frosting for desert.
Another night boon-docking went much better. with lunch in Cave Junction,Or at Taylor s Country Store and restaurant.
We slowly worked our way back home with out last night out at Detroit Lake State Park, the lake is so low.....it was very quiet, and I really enjoyed it. It was so different traveling in the same vehicle with Jay, the laughs and comments. So much different then being on separate bikes. Like reconnecting.....not all the day to day stuff to get in the way. I look forward to much more of this type of travel.
