Having voted, viewed the election results, and waited out a couple of rainy and windy days, we got away on Saturday, Nov. 7. As usual, we slept aboard the night before. In the morning, alas, we found the LP gas detector beeping. But the beep sequence and light display did not match any of the failure or alarm scenarios in the instruction manual. And no smell of gas. And of course, the alarm was an odd brand not found anywhere we might be going. We unplugged it and put it in a drawer, planning to re-plug it somewhere along the line and see if it still sent us the unusual signal. (We did 10 days later, and everything worked as it was supposed to; the normal light display and test button response was normal. Humph?)
On our first morning out, we checked the weather forecasts for our next few destinations and found SNOW forecasts of "several inches" for three different locations and two of our optional routes. Oops! Plan "C" said jump over to the Oregon coast and figure out later how to get east.
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| Just love the Tillamook Dairy mini-buses |
Rain off and on joined us on our route to Tillamook, OR, visited the wonderful cheese factory there and picked up some curds.
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| Let me "count the ways" er, inches - rain on the Oregon Coast |
But alas (again) the outside steps failed to deploy when we got to the Elks campground there. Add a day to dismantle and reassemble -- seemed to be just a mechanical jam in the folding/unfolding sequence.
After the fourth night, in Florence, OR, the lights on the C-Max which we tow, did not come on. Humbug!! Add another day to troubleshoot that! (It's working mostly ok now; we'll replace the plug in the C-Max when we get to somewhere with some better supplies.) (*Dean's getting real good at crawling under the RV!)
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| Our hero - he found a dry moment to crawl under the tow bar |
That delay in a day left us in a perfect (?) spot for the next great winter rain storm to arrive on the coast. Shaking and strong creaks of the slide-out awning caused a mid night move to shelter on the other side of a building.
Except for the above, nothing too exceptional. We were distressed that Oregonians seemed to wink at the "wear your mask" urgings, but after the governors of WA, OR, and CA announced a return to more restrictive levels (and getting into California), we now see pretty good "coverage" The spotty rain and fog is behind us; it has actually been warm the past couple of days --- migosh!,--- we even ran the air conditioner a few times. Enjoying looking at cows, horses, and crops along the way. Have seen little of the disastrous fires that we thought we'd find in the Napa area. A few that were several acres, but only in the scrub brush.
We've been splitting the driving each day. One of us drives; the other sits and prays. Traffic has been mostly delay-free (except for the small sedan upside-down in the middle of the highway in California --- is that normal? I s'pose so.) A number of road improvement projects, also in CA. Hiway 58 east from Mojave wonderfully improved from previous trips. Miss Lily is doing fine, with new places to sniff Nothing important falling off the RV for several days. Things have settled down. We'll see how AZ treats us tomorrow.
Sent from Ludlow, CA. 11/21/20 (You'll need a big magnifying glass to find that!)
