2017 Trip – Blog #7 – Getting Things Done

    

Sunday, June 4th, 2017…..  Today we slept in, and then headed out to Albany and Lebanon and Foster Lake to check out campgrounds to possibly relocate to.  Knox Butte RV Resort and Blue Ox RV Park in Albany were possibilities but neither have room for us without relocating sites or having to leave altogether and then come back.  We then went to town (Albany) to Elmer’s for breakfast and then drove to Lebanon. We cruised by the house (yeah, it’s still there!) and then drove around the area.  This place is smaller than we thought but still good size for us.  Population is around 17,000.  To the north is the er/hospital (voted excellence in urgent care and staff). Continuing south, you then you go through old town.  They have divided the streets into one-ways through this section.  Leaving that area, you come to the newer developed section, where you find newer housing tracts (ours is out this way), Safeway, Walmart, Walgreens, etc.  No Home Depot or Lowes (bummer) but they have a good sized lumber store and two Ace Hardware’s. HD & Lowes are both in Albany. We drove around a bit and found other places to explore in the future! They have an Elks Lodge (I am a 13 yr Elk member) so I can transfer to this lodge in the future. We drove out to Foster Lake RV Park (office was closed) and then to Mallard Creek Golf and RV Resort.  This one is the closest but office was closed (it’s Sunday).  We’ll check it out and decide if and where we want to move.

We drove back to the rig and rested for the day.  Later, we ate leftover Chinese for dinner and after that I took a walk around the campground and then we settled in for the evening.    

Monday, June 5th, 2017…..   This morning we had nothing planned, so we stayed in bed and watched some taped shows. During this time, I went online and booked our flights/car for Jeff & Krista’s wedding in Vegas next month, so that’s done! Lydia fixed breakfast and then we took off for a few errands.  After going to the Lowes in west Eugene, we decided to just keep going west and drove the 50 mile scenic drive to Florence. Our plan was to have linner and then drive back. We saw a sign for Moe’s who claimed to have award winning clam chowder so we found it and parked.  It’s right on the Siuslaw River with a great view as the river runs into the ocean. The chowder was a 7 on a scale of 1-10 but the salmon (Lydia) and the combo plate (Terry) were both pretty good and the prices were fair.  Afterward, we walked through some of the gift shops a bit and saw things we might decorate with in the future.  They also told us about another seafood place that was a favorite of the locals. We drove up and down the coast and checked things out for our next visit. We came back to the rig and rested.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017…..  We figure we have 40+ days left before was can get busy with things so we have to take it easy and just do bits and pieces each day. We gave the kids our mattress before we left so we want to check out the places here.  We looked up some of the stores and after breakfast we went to see what we could find. Eugene has all of the big box stores and will be 40 miles from our home. But Salem and Albany have them as well and are closer. We found one store that had a 4^th of July sale but their Memorial Day sale was way better.  I talked them into giving us that discount so we saved almost $700 bucks! We chose a memory foam Serta Beauty Rest in a split cal king with an adjustable base.  It will allow Lydia to sit up and watch TV plus elevate her feet, and that’s important, so we didn’t skimp on this one – it should be our forever bed! We stopped again at Lowes and I bought some stainless screws to replace some on the rig that were old. We went back home and Lydia fixed dinner and we settled in to wait to watch America’s Got Talent and World of Dance.  I didn’t mention it before but since we are farther north the sun sets later in the evening.  It’s still light out at 9:00pm!  It will take some getting used to!