Happy Thanksgiving

Another Thanksgiving is here again. The past year has been filled with great times and some not to good times. But today family and friends are gathering to celebrate the day.

The Wilbur make over.

11/13/09 Friday the 13th

So I found another 1973 Winnebago Indian, just like Wilbur, that was being parted out in Monroe Oregon.

Now Wilbur had his front seats replaced and this old Bago, I guess it really is the same age as Wilbur, had original seats that had been recovered. So when Jeff brought me the front seats from it I needed to give them a try. The passenger seat is a double wide seat and when I tried it in Wilbur it seemed like a couch. Wall to wall seating. This should work out good for movie night.

On the left is the before then the after picture.

If you look closely you can see the rusty carpet around the seat floor mount. This will take sometime to clean up. If it ever cleans up.

Fall 2009 Jamboree 9/25 - 9/27 Kelso, WA

Another great time was had with my Classic Winnebago friends in the great Northwest. In the last couple of years we get together in April and September to show off our rigs and just enjoy our friendship. All it takes is a place to go shoping for the gals, oh even us guy's enjoy a good store or two, and a place to go dancing. Now don't think that we spoil the girls, but we have found that if the girls are happy then the guys are happy. Just give me a place to set down and talk about motorhomes and I am happy.

Saturday night we had a pot luck supper. This is in Terry and Carolann's rig. We would kick them out of the club, since they don't really have a Winnebago, but we really like to use there rig because it is so large.

We found the local Red Lobster for lunch Saturday.

Terry and Carolann's Georgie Boy with the slide out.

Jeff gets the last bug off his glass. Can you see the reflection of John and Sue's rig on the side.

Susan and Craig brought their Itaska Class C.

The WIT club door mat and flag were displayed.

Two '73 Indians with a '70 in the middle.

9/18/09-9/20/09 Surf City

So we headed back to the coast for another Surf City at the Casino in Lincoln City, OR.  This was probably the 3rd year for us taking Wilbur.  Great car shows and music along with great weather, after the rain early Saturday morning.

Wednesday 9/2/09

I don't know why I have trouble keeping the blog up daily. Guess I need a satellite Internet system so where ever I go I have Internet. Think again guy's. I am way too cheap to do that just for a hobby. Anyway we have been several places since the last post. Lets see, we went home a couple of times, then back to the coast a few times. Even met up with my oldest brother and his wife in Tillamook, OR. We camped out at the blimp hanger dry camp area. It was their first time there. But not there last time since they stoped again on the way back down the coast.

Some work on Wilbur has been touch up paint on the front where my new bike rubbed the paint off. Then I have washed and put gas in the tanks. Seem to put gas in several times.

Now Sophie and I are back to work.

Tuesday 7/28/09

Drove to a breakfast camp on the river in Florence. We have had a few meals along the river here and enjoyed everyone of them. After a walk through town we go and fill up the gas tanks. The cheapest gas for a few years now has been in Florence. At the Fred Meyer with a 10 cent per gallon discount we paid $2.37 a gallon. We drive on into Lincoln City and eat supper at the Casino. Tuesday is one of the coupon days so we eat out. Then we head home.

Monday 7/27/09

We spent last night at a golf course. Now this was a plac e I found on the internet at the Free and cheap RV places. The thing I liked about it was the deer that were there. Well we never saw any deer there but Sophie found some large white rocks in the stream that ran through the course. She thought we should not take them. Good move too since our tires were giving us trouble without the extra weight.



Drove into Bandon for some smoked salmon abd then to the Bullard State Park where we had lunch. Took a tour of the Coquille River Lighthouse. It is still fun to go up in the park where the light use to be and look around.



We then drove to Shore Acres State Park. This is a formal garden built by a man who had a large house from wood collected on the shore from ships in the ocean. And of course I did find a Classic Winnebago along the way.







In Florence we stopped along the river for a supper camp and used the WIFI that Florence has. Then we spent the night at the Three Rivers Casino. Another free dry camp area at another Casino.