Saturday November 22,'08

Today started our grand adventure for the fall, winter and spring. As many of you know, the plans include (among other things) Thanksgiving in California, Christmas in Scottsdale, Mid January should find us touring Mexico for 2 months.

Luckily the whole adventure has extra lay-over days! We used the first one - on day one!

We left Olympia bound for Canyonville, OR. Fifty miles into the day the RV engine became a seven-cylinder wonder. -as in We wonder how far this thing will go! We returned to Olympia and the folks that had most recently worked on the rig. They found a wire (laying on an exhaust pipe) melted and shorted. The fix took less than two hours, but that found us in Olympia 4 hours late to leave.

About eighty miles later (in Kelso, WA) the brand-new exhaust system disassembled! Imagine the sound of a Farmall Tractor in Heat!!

So this day ends in Portland with a wonderful visit with Anna's relatives; Leona, Chuck, Vicki, Debbie and her two charming kids Brooke and Cody. What a wonderful afternoon, dinner, evening and breakfast We should've planned to do that in the first place!!!!