Long Beach, WA

We are currently in Long Beach, WA which is approximately 35 miles north of Seaside, OR. As you can see, we don't travel great distances anymore or at least until gas gets back down to $2 a gallon (fat chance). Long Beach prides itself as the longest beach in the world (28 miles of white sand). We have been here since last Tuesday and will be leaving for Chehalis, WA this Tuesday. As you can see in the picture, they have some lighthouses here also. We checked a couple of them yesterday. Really pretty cool. Also we went into Ilwaco (which is a little town right next to Long Beach) and went to a local craft show. It was about 20 to 25 little tent canopies along the beach. Lots of touristy things. A good time was had by all.
When we were in Seaside, Jo's brother Dan and his wife Glenda came over to visit us. They live in Dallas, OR which is about a 100 miles from Seaside. We just hung out, played some games (Uno Attack, which if you have not played it, it becomes addicting after a few games). They had such a great time that they are going to come up to Chehalis to visit us again next week.
Another new item: Jo and I bought a "Wii". So we have been bowling, playing baseball, tennis and golf. That thing is amazing, it is just like playing the sports. Of coarse, you don't have the actual equipment, but you have the control in your hand and the "Wii" recognises what you do. If you don't throw your bowling ball straight (for example) you will get a "gutter ball" just like the real deal. And the next morning, everything hurts (just as if you had gone bowling). Well that's about it for now......

Duane and Jo

Catching Up........

Dear Friends and Family...
Here I go again with our "blog". I had written the long one earlier but somehow had lost it in cyberspace???? Joanne got with Karen and figured out what I had done or at least found it and "published" it.
We are in Seaside, Oregon right now. We had been up in Chehalis, WA before that. We had spent about 3 weeks in Chehalis (which is where our property and home are) looking into getting some stuff done. ie: we applied for and got an "address" for our property. We are officially now 661 Jefferies Road, Chehalis, WA. But don't send anything there because we don't have a mail box or anything. We also looked into getting a driveway put in (we currently have to use our neighbors driveway to get on to our property). We also talked to the power people about getting "power" brought on to our property but we have to have a "driveway" first before they can bring power in. The reason we are in Seaside is because we can only stay 3 weeks in our campground (Thousand Trails - which we belong to) at a time. Then we have to move on to another TT campground for at least one week and then we can go back to the one in Chehalis. I know, I know...it sounds confusing but it works. We will be going back to Chehalis in about one week (for another 3 weeks) and then we will be going to another campground near by for a week and then back to Chehalis. We probably will be leaving the Chehalis area in late August and heading back to Calif. for a week or so. I guess that is about it.......ps: I will include pictures as soon as I can figure out how to do it (I can't seem to get the camera to "download" the pics that I have) Sorry.....

D & J

On the road Jan 2008

We started out Jan. 2008 in Lake Havasu, AZ with our good friends the Albee's. Duane is standing in front of the London Bridge in Lake Havasu. From Lake Havasu we headed up to Washington to visit Shonda and the family and then over to Sarah's. This is where we encountered our first snow. It wasn't until leaving Washington and heading to Gardnerville, NV to visit with Bob & Carole that we had to put chains on the motorhome.

This is something new for us

We are attempting to create a "blog". I'm still not sure just how to do all of this stuff but I'm going to give it a try.

We are currently in Palm Springs (CA) and will be going to Phoenix in the morning. We were at our daughter Karen's house for the last couple of weeks. We were there in Mission Viejo because Joanne had "jury duty". She had to go in for just one day and then was released. Also, while we were there, we needed to get some repairs done to our rig. We had developed a hydraulic leak again (different place than last time) and I discovered that when our 'gray' water holding tank would get full, it would leak into one of our storage compartments. Well, the hydraulic leak was apparently no big deal, they just tightened the fitting (so they say) (we will see.....). As for the gray water tank, they had to drop the tank and they found a broken fitting. They repaired the fitting and we are back in business. Of course, while we were at Joanne's old work (Santa Margarita Ford), we were actually over at their "fleet center" (which is different then the dealership), to have them look at the hydraulic leak and of course, while I was showing the mechanic the problem, their parts truck backed into our rig. I went to the back to see what happened, and the guy sez, "I backed into your tow bar, I don't think it hurt anything". I looked at the tow bar and it looked OK, so I waved him on. The next day I was behind the rig looking at something, and WOW!!!!! The guy had hit my bumper (not the tow bar) and I was too dumb to check everything out at the time. So....Joanne jumped in our little Kia, and hot footed it over to the dealership and told them what had happened. Well, to make a short story of it (I know, I'm too late for that)....they agreed to fix it. So we had to get estimates for that repair (and we are still trying to get the damage fixed from when we were in Las Vegas and the ol' lady with the maintenance cart ran into us. So now we have two "damage" repairs to get done. We are going to meet up with our good friends, Bob and Carole Tripp, in Phoenix. We are all going to an Angles pre-season baseball game. Then.....we are going to caravan around the Southwest (AZ, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado) for awhile (6 weeks or so)

Well, I guess this is a start........

I'll try to add more soon.....

Duane and Joanne