Off on a new adventure! June 5th

Saturday had been a very exciting and rewarding day as we had the privilege of watching daughter Cindy participate in and complete the Newport marathon. Her busy life had been full of many varied exercise routines lately but not included the long range training that is necessary for a full marathon. Consequently she really "paid" in the pain category to be able to complete this event. But she did and we were very proud of her...as we are anyway.

Sunday morning we were up and ready (once we said our goodbyes and explained to year old Jenna why she could NOT go with us)to hit the road on our new adventure. With Gary at the helm of our new 34' Bounder Motor home with trailer in tow we crossed out of the gates of our protected little community of Seagrove not really knowing when we will be back. We have good, trusted neighbors watching our home base and we are glad we designed the house to "take care of itself" pretty much while we are gone. We even have guard fish in the pond out back, just hope any would be intruders have sen Jaws and have a strong imagination.

Actually we brought ALL our toys with us so there is not much that an intruder would want anyway. You se the enclosed trailer tagging along behind us contains the shiny red Honda Goldwing with sporty sidecar. And sorry guys, there is NO one pin he can pull to disconnect the sidecar and send his trusting wife off into oblivion like you see in the cartoons...do you believe everything you see in the cartoons?

So day one of our adventure took is through hail and heavy thunder showers on the Oregon coast, inland through cloudy, overcast in Salem, up I 205 and East on I 84 up the VERY windy Columbia River gorge to Pendleton. We logged 326 miles in all. Our overnight stop, as planned, was at the Wild Horse Casino. They have a nice gravel parking lot adjacent to their regular one. No charge to "boondock" there. "Boondock" is an Rv term for staying someplace with no services...best of all it is FREE. Trying to se if we can get all the way to Branson "boondocking" helps to offset the cost of the fuel we are using along the way.

The Wild Horse Casino was quite small compared to the ones we are used to on the Oregon Coast. More the size of 7 Cedars in Sequim but not as well run or clean.

I love the names we are encountering here in what I call "cowboy country". We stopped for diesel and propane at the "Arrowhead Truck Stop".

Nuff for now,
Linda