Awake: 5:14am Temp 59 Foggy then partly cloudy Overnight @
Portland, OR
After breakfast, Kathy makes a few phone calls to change our Alaska
address, then organizes the inside of our bus making ready for travel.
Meanwhile, I extend the telescoping ladder, clean off 4 slide tops,
retract the slides & detach all the umbilical cords except shore power &
cable TV.
During our prep, Howard, our neighbor from across the street, walks over
for a chat. He knows Frank & Kay, the people who let us store our coach
for 3 months in the onion storage building last summer. Howard & his wife
belong to the same Snowbird rally group as do F & K…. & will see them
tomorrow. I ask Howard to send a “BIG Hello” to them from us.
@ 1:15 pm, we walk over to Dick & Christine’s camping site, then the 4 of
us motor down to the Widmer Brothers Brewing Company to have a beer with
lunch. The waitress warns us that the portions are huge so K & I each have
a KGB Stout beer & share a bowl of Goulash soup. D & C each have a beer &
a meal of Weisswurst. Wow! That waitress wasn’t kidding. D & C both order
a BIG doggie bag before leaving.
Next we visit the nearby Nike outlet store….just looking. En route back to
our campground, since C is graving a piece of fruit, Dick makes a quick
stop @ the Mini-mart on Marine Dr. No fruit, so why not an ice cream bar!
Back to their bus @ around 4:30pm. While Kathy and Christine visit, I
accompany Dick to the campground office where he signs up for another
day’s stay in the park. We enjoy another hour of kibitzing with them in
their living room before returning to our bus. We were glad this
mini-rendezvous worked out so well with D & C coming over from Newport to
Portland for the weekend.
Next, we hitch up our Suzuki tow car to the bus; we are now ready for that
quick & easy early morning departure.
7:25 Dinner: Healthy snacks while watching FOX news: Assorted cheeses,
Triscuits with roasted garlic, mixed nuts & Bing cherries. Our lunch was
quite filling!
Late evening when it’s much cooler: We walk the campground for 50 min of
exercise & Kathy gets 32 min of talking 1st with Kevin, then with Melissa
about: “How goes the moving experience?” They planned on being finished &
driving out tomorrow but….that’s not going to happen. “It’s the little
things yet to do” they say & we say: “We’ve been there!”
Even later evening: I call Stacy in Anchorage….a close friend of Gordon &
we talk about selling our RAV 4.
High temp today=87 Lights out: 11:33pm
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