Saint Helens outing

A quiet place to spend some time is in St. Helens Oregon.  The Elks have a nice lodge in a residential part of town.  And during the Summer on Thursday the town has concerts on the river.   Known as 13 nights on the river.  Take a look at the stage.  

Can you see the large cargo ship going down the river.  

And we did find a nice 9 hole disk golf course at a church.  

Prineville and points East

Prineville was the start of this week in central oregon.  A car show was going on at the fairgrounds and a couple of friends had trucks in the show. I enjoyed the tractor and old stationary engine display. 

We drove around the town and countryside seeing a couple of reservoirs and great rock formations. 

The fairgrounds has an RV park we spent 3 nights at.  

A night at the madras elks with friends. 

Then Sophie and I went to Bend for the rest of the week.  

It was our 38th wedding anniversary on the 12th of June.  

The Oregon coast (camp WI NE MA)

When the sun is shining on the ocean there is nothing nicer.  So when we get a chance to enjoy sun and ocean together our favorite place is a church camp right on the beach. 

And you can see the crowd. 

This is our view through the windshield. 

Then there was the bald eagle. 

Watching over the ocean was this guy pearched hi on a tree. 

We spent a couple of nights here and then the weather turned and we headed home.  Another great trip to the coast. 

We headed East again.

This last outing started with a belt on the engine squealing as we were on I-205.   But before we pulled off to the side the noise stopped.   The gauges looked like everything was good so we took off again.  There was something hitting the cooling fan but it stopped at 55 so we drove on to my good friend Terry's house.   Once we looked things over it seems like the two A. I. R. pumps are not really needed so the belt is off and one pump is locked up and it will probably stay that way for awhile. 

Then we spent the night at the Unger RV park.  The next day we drove on to The Dalles Eagles.  Yes we have been there 3 times this year but we enjoy it.   The weather was drier and warmer than most places. 

Then there was a screw in a tire on the wagon.  A trip to the tire factory took care of that.  

And we met some new friends who are the band that played at the Eagles club Saturday night.  Lots of country for The Dalles crowd but they also play classic rock.  Kent and shirey.  sunshine express.  

The RV Show in Puyallup WA

I guess it was my fault but we took a few classic Winnebago's to the WA state fair.  

We spent the Wednesday night in the RV park at the fairgrounds so we could drive into the fairgrounds and park next to the "non classic RV's" before the public was let in. 

We were able to plug into electricity and stay right here for the night.   Just us and the security guards.  Jeff only lasted a couple of nights before he took off sick.   And then Terry took a few hours off to check out the local emergency room.  But the big loss was when my fridge died.  That's another story.  

Hoodstock in The Dalles

It was taco Thursday at the Arie.  And good too.  

And for the usuall pot luck we ate outside too. 

And if we hadn't eaten enough we did one last meal the the cousins restaurant. They gave us plenty of birthday cake after breakfast.  

It's my birthday but Smokey got the gifts

Yes getting older has it's drawbacks but wait until next year.  That's when I might get social security and a discount on parks and good stuff like that.  It was very nice to get cake and icecream with my kids.  But back to the work.  

Smokey got new engine oil cooler lines. 

And a new oil pressure sender. The old one was leaking. 

And new oil that is good for older engines. 

And a new old vehicle license plate. 

And I drilled out the carb squirter nozzle to help it run better and finished the day with adjusting the power steering belt to fix the sqeal it was making.  All in all a good few days of RVing.