Prime Rib in Hopland

We are in Hopland off SR101 parked in the parking lot of the Sho-Ka-Wah Indian Casino.  A small casino with a great Prime Rib dinner and and even greater price for player club members. One pound prime rib with salad, potato, vegetable for only seven dollar and something cents.  The parking lot here is sloped but the very top is fairly level and marked for RV parking.

Last night we parked in the at the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Casino. One of the friendliest casinos we have been to. On the down side, the RV parking lot does NOT have a level spot anywhere.  Using all my blocks I was still afraid Debbie was going to have a hard time staying on her side of the bed.

Down to Brookings

We left Florence around 10am this morning. It started snowing in Colberg this morning so we got out of there in the nick of time. And there was snow on some of the passes, so glad we decided to take the coast route.

The drive down to Brookings was a real challenge. We encountered heavy rain, wild wind and a curvy roadway, stretches of which were hung on the edge of the ocean, but no snow.  We arrived the the Elks around 2pm to an empty campground. We had to approach the lodge the round about way because a large sinkhole had swallowed both lanes of the road leading up to the lodge.

Tacos are on the menu at the lodge tonight but Debbie cooked a pot roast yesterday, love that crock-pot, so I’ll pass on the tacos. Love the crock-pot operator also!

We have a pull-through site so we were able to leave the car connected. We’ll leave in the morning for Trinidad, CA.

Finally Florence

We’re finally in Florence and settled in at the Florence Elks RV park.  The drive here was an easy hour and a half through some very beautiful scenery.

This morning Cummins we got in and out right away and now we’re all back to normal, except for the two engine batteries.  I found them 22 miles away down in Reedsport and drove down to pick them up. Installed between rain showers and without starting any fires. I’m certainly getting a workout lugging these 60-70 pound batteries back and forth.  I also had to take out the inverter to change the charging program for AMG house batteries . That thing is really heavy and I almost had to come home with it lying on its side in it’s basement compartment.

I need to post a few pictures that I didn’t include in a few of the previous posts. This is the sunrise at Ocean Shores just before the hydraulic pump motor burnt up.  The ocean view is behind me.

Here is our camp site at Cape Disappointment.

While we were there we drove over to Long Beach.

We passed by this lake on the way to the beach.

This is our site in Coburg. We received the morning paper on our step each morning.  I didn’t get a picture of Camp Cummins.

Here in Florence, Ty tries out a tree.

And here he’s showing off his new spiked collar. He really gets an attitude when he gets to wear it.

Repair update

If everything checks out tomorrow we should be on our way back to California.

Friday they finished installing the new unit from HWH. It appears to be working ok. Cummins didn’t have time to finish calibration so we’ll be staying at least till Monday. We don’t want to get too far from Cummins until we we’re sure it’s working properly. Unfortunately, because of the big game here in Eugene, WA vs. OR, we weren’t able to continue staying in the RV park. It’s full with Duck (UO) fans who came from all over the state for the game. Cummins’ has about ten spaces with 30 amp electric, a couple of water faucets and a dump station. We didn’t stay here before because the sites are on a slope and our leveling jack weren’t working but now we can level the RV and the price is right, free! We also will be close for our 8am appointment. When that is complete we will head toward the coast. We decided to head that way because Oregon requires all vehicles to carry chains after the 1st of November whether they are needed or not. A storm is coming in today and may drop snow on the passes. The way our luck has been going lately we decided to take the cowards way out. Route 126 from here to Florence is not under the Oregon snow chains require law and a couple or other ‘campers’ here at the Cummins Resort said the road is good and is not be a problem for an RV.

During the repair and testing I discovered one of the house batteries bulging and thought bad house batteries might be part of the problem so I started looking for replacements. Despite being in the center of RV land I couldn’t find three Lifeline AMG batteries. We drove up to Junction City to Guarantee RV, Oregon's largest RV dealer but they only had two. I settled for Trojan AMGs and got them installed and the core returned. Now I have discovered the house batteries don’t run the hydraulic pump, the two engine batteries do. They are original so are at least six years old and due for replacement also so I’ll look for some of those over on the coast. They should be easier to find and we’re ready to get going!

Friday evening we went out to the local Elks Lodge for dinner. They were serving Prime Rib. It was very good and a bargain to boot.

Coburg, OR

We are at Premier RV Resort in Coburg just outside of Eugene. We arrived Sunday evening without incident. The site is level enough that we can finally dial in the satellite. This is a nice park with good satellite and cell reception. Sites have full hookups and the patio is in the right location for a change.

This morning we dropped off the MH at Cummings for them to diagnose our problem. Around two pm they called and confirmed what I had guessed, a burn out pump motor.  HWH doesn’t make this model any more so we have to replace the unit that the new motor can mount to in addition to the motor. Of course they don’t have the assembly in stock and will have to fabricate one and then overnight it to us. The soonest we can expect to receive the unit is Friday morning. 

Well we’re here until at least Friday then we have to move because OU is playing a big game with their big rival Washington and the campgrounds are all full. We can stay at one to the sites at Cumming which has electric and a dump station and if we have to stay here over the weekend I guess that’s what we’ll do. The problem is the sites are not very level and we have no jacks.

On the positive side the weather has been good, overcast but warm, and so far no rain. That may change because the RV park has a wash area and I ran the car, which was imitating a potato field, over to it this evening and washed it.

Tomorrow, well she wanted to do it today, Debbie wants to try to manually slide out the bedroom slide. I am a little apprehensive because we already have one slide hanging out about four inches. But I guess we’ll give it a try.