FALL 2019 #2 —- IT’S A TOFINO!

In the beginning, we were foutnate that Susan could rope coerce convince bribe persuade gently ask her long time college friend Shirley to drive down to Portland with us. SHE SAID YES! Shirley drove down from her home in Mount Vernon (40 minutes north of us) to spend the night at our house for an early (4:30 a.m.) departure! That calls for a good friend! Shirley will spend some time in and around the Portland/Eugene area visiting with friends and family while Susan and I go tootling around in the new RV. When ready to leave the area, she will drive our van home. Thanks to Shirley, we will not have to drive two vehicles home ;’-). Not only did it make this nice for us, but Shirley was great fun to have along for the drive down. (And she thinks she got the better end of the deal!).

This will not surprise Sarah, but we arrived at Johnson RV in Sandy, Oregon about four hours before our scheduled 2:00 Appointment. Fortunately they were ready for us and we were done way earlier than we would have been with the original time. Art gave us the near two hour tour of our new RV — inside and out. As many will correctly imagine, Susan had a lot of questions.

We spent a ton of time transferring (too much) gear from the van to the RV so that we could release Shirley before beginning our paper work for ownership. After paperwork was completed we took off for the maiden drive. First stop was DMV in Camas WA for tax and license (ouch!). We are legal in Washington. So off we continued to to our first night of ‘camping’. 

We headed toward the Washington coast and stopped at the Skamokawa Vista City Park that Susan had learned of from one of her online ‘lists’. The campground is on the Columbia River and is not too bad of a spot but has very few trees and not a bunch of privacy. An ok place to stay for one night.

It is a learning experience! As Susan says —- we will need to take our time, be patient, not get too frustrated with things, and we will end up loving it! As I say — for now it is a learning experience and things are not all in the correct places (plus we have too many ‘things’), and we don’t quite know how everything works or is supposed to work.

Speaking of work...

Susan is at her chores for the morning. ;’-)

Sleeping last night was not the best for me but that is no surprise. Will make an adjustment or two tonight and see if that will help.

All that, and we have no remorse for having made the purchase. We look forward to lots of fun adventures.