Washington

We spent a day in our friends drive-way in Goldendale.  Visited, ate and played a game of cards which Cheryl(john's sister) won because she was new to the game.  Arrived here at our spot on the Hood River, in Pasco, Wa. We are under the trees with lots of grass around.  After setting up we drove the 10 miles up to where Denny & Mary(friends) are working for the summer.  We went to the Burbank Bar and had a taco lunch special which was real good and the price was right.  We went to the movies yesterday as it was real hot in the high 90"s and saw Jersey Boys.  We have picked our Royal Ann Cherries (the yellow ones) for $1.50 a pound, visited the Preston Winery which now has a different name and not like it use to be, visited the Merchentile Market and tasted all their goodies.  Today is suppose to be another hot day but looks like its like that all along the Western States, except for home because we aren't there.

Reno & Shingletown

Mon June 23rd  We arrived in Sparks, Nevada for a short visit with my brother.  We went to breakfast at Denny's and us girls got our nails and pedicures done while John shopped at Sportsman Outlet.  We found a Hobby Lobby and checked it out too!  We went to a new theater in the shopping center by our park.  It was a great experience-we had leather recliner chairs with enough room for people to walk by still.  Tables for setting your drinks and goodies-they even sold beer and wine in glasses.  I fixed dinner for my brother-he wanted chicken and rice like my Mom fixed.  We ate at a New York Pizza place which was pretty good.  When we came out the sky was just beautiful with pink and purple clouds.
  Thurs we arrived at Shingletown KOA.  We has a premium spot with our own patio, BBQ, table and chairs.  We ate most of the time with John"s sister Sandy and husband Ralph.  We fixed dinner at our place one night so we could enjoy the patio and had a fire afterward.  Enjoyed an ice cream social and a pancake breakfast which KOA"S usually do during the summer.  The weather was just perfect and enjoyed the visits..

Summer Travels 2014

We started our summer trip with a week tour of New York with our son Terry, Kourtney, their sons Troy and Travis and our daughter-in-laws Lori and Leandra and Kourtney's parents.  We were busy every day and saw all the tourist places, learned how to ride the subways and walked our legs off.  Got home did laundry and finished packing the motorhome and left for family reunion in Auburn, Calif.  It was great seeing everybody and catching up.

Days in Virginia

Sorry we haven't posted but didn't have strong signal.  Anyway we arrived at Bob's (my cousin) who lives out in the country near Appomatix.  We did ok on roads but we did come on a single lane bridge that made a quick 90 Deg. turn on roadway.  John managed to get us across but it was really TIGHT.  Mattie loved playing with their dogs and did Ok with their declawed cats that just wander around the house.
 We went in to Liberty College and had a great buffet lunch with Julie-Ann our employee's daughter that just started school there.  Nice to visit with her and see some of the campus.  We went to Bed, Bath & Beyond and I got a set of tephlon pans that work on my induction stove.  Bob had that set so I knew it would work.  We have gone to some local orchards and got apples and peaches but as usual not as good as we would like.  We did go to a little place for lunch where the food was good but they specialize in pies.  We tried a brown sugar pie which never had before and it was very good but we took home a pecan which was just out of this world.  The 94 year old mother was there and she recited Matthew 28 for us and than her daughters who work at pie shop sang a gospel song.  We had some rain  during the evening.  Sunday was a foggy morning and made for some nice pictures.  We went to church but missed service since there are different times every other Sunday.  We took a ride later in the 4wheel drive Kabota RTV to property near them where they are clear cutting the land.  Quite interesting.  JVP

Good By Red Bay

Monday,  we got up early and John headed to Bay 8 to get the awning repaired.  I went across the street and got my nails done and we were ready to roll.  They didn't have the right part so it is being shipped to the shop and John will put it in.  We stopped in Chattanooga, Tenn. and decided to spent another day, since we lost another hour today.  We are now 3 hours ahead of Calif time.  We slept in on Tuesday although we aren't caught up on the right time yet.  We drove up to Look Out Mountain which it the tallest mountain around and half in Georgia and half in Tennessee. Our first visit was to Ruby Falls.  We went down an elevator 260 ft down and saw the formations in the cave-we have seen most forms before but at the end it gets very cool and you can hear water and it is dark.  Ruby Falls is 145 ft. (a very long way up where it starts) and they have a light show on it.  It is just spectacular.  Our next stop was Rock City.  It is on Look Out Mountain also, 1700 ft. above sea level.  It is a garden with lots of plants, trees and flowers nestled into huge rock boulders.  You have to walk through or a should say squeeze through some of them (like eye of needle).  You can see 7 states from up there-it was hazy today but still a beautiful view on top of a huge rock that has a waterfall dropping down.  They have a lot of gnomes there in the rocks and also a nursery scene with statues hand carved in Germany.  John wasn't sure he wanted to go but he enjoyed it.  We both walked, climbed steps, and were so tired when we got back to motor home.
 

Our week of work at Red Bay

We are slowly getting work done. Tile is all in place and doing good.  John has hooked up solenoid to engine so that is fixed.  They worked on adjusting slides as they were miss aligned.  We are working on getting the rear awning fixed.  Spent most of Friday in 2 different bays, changed the motor out but did the same thing and wouldn't work after one time.  So it was quitting time-we had hoped to be out of here but now have to wait until Monday.  Visited with our Ohio neighbors, and New Zealand couple.  We all went to Rattlesnake Saloon on Friday night.  It is quite aways away from here out in middle of nowhere.  We passed the Coon Dog Cemetery where coon dogs only are buried.  Got to Saloon and took a ride in back of truck with crude wooden benches in the back down a steep, dirt road to the bottom.  It is a huge cliff that you sit under, we had beer and burgers, appetizers of snake eyes and tails-(fried green beans and jalapenos). dill pickles, mozzarella sticks and mushrooms.  Than they had karaoke night and most of singers sang country songs.  Our Ohio neighbor Becky is in to music and she sang.  It rained for a short time while we were there.  Bud & Betty had been evacuated from camp ground in Colorado and as soon as they could moved closer to their daughter and than got out of area.  Scary! The weather has cooled off here-in the 80"s in the day and 60's at night and we have spent alot of time sitting outside with Mattie and walking her around here.  John has spent the rest of the day since workers all quit at 4 working on figuring out what is wrong with awning and now knows it needs a computer board.  They should have one when we go into our bay at 7 on Monday.  We have enjoyed sleeping in and having it quiet over the weekend but on Monday the dance begins of motorhomes moving to 49 bays.

Back in Monday Schedel

We moved over beside another service building.  Plugged into electricity but have to use our tanks for water and sewer.  Got the couch tiles done but can't move the slides in for a day so we are here for today and tomorrow.  Got the refrigerator tile fixed and than on Tues he worked on fixing the tile that broke when we finally got engine compartment open.  John put the new solenoid in and should fixed on that spot now.  Pulled the front slide in this morning and tile broke again.  Checked the slide and whats underneath and than put in another tile.  Tues afternoon we had a good rain storm.  Took this out the drivers window.  The air conditioning pump didn't fit so have to order one.  John went over to factory and looked at some things we wanted to check out.
    Went to Jacks fast food place and had fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans with a biscuit.  Very good.  Took showers, watched TV and I knitted some.  Went to bed early since the day starts at 6AM here.