Monday, we woke up to SNOW. Rich had to have the truck into the Chevy dealer by 8:45 and had to ride his bike back to the fiver in the snow. That was a cold wet ride. We were suppose to have the fiver in for the warranty work to be done today but that elusive jack has still not shown up yet, so we’ve rescheduled to bring it in Thursday afternoon for them to start on bright and early Friday morning. The truck is back in the dealers to find out why the engine braking isn’t working. Rich has done some research and it looks like it might be a broken wire, let’s hope it is that simple. I spent the snowy morning going through paperwork and our budget; it was a good morning to stay inside. We ended up with about 2" of snow but the sun came out in the afternoon and melted most of it away. We got the sad news about the Boston Marathon bombing and had the TV on and off all afternoon.
Rich worked on sanitizing our 100-gallon fresh water tank and installing a new water filter. We took Gracie for her afternoon walk. We heard back from the Chevy dealer, it is a worn out shift lever instead of a broken wire and they have a part being over nighted from Reno, Nevada and it should be in tomorrow. So we are without a vehicle until tomorrow – good thing we don’t have anything planned. It started snowing off and on during the evening again, where has our warm weather gone? We had a movie/popcorn night and called it a day.
Tuesday, we woke to more snow….sigh. I’m definitely ready for some warm spring weather. We are both trying to be patient with all these repairs, but are so ready to be on the road. Had a leisurely morning, worked on rearranging some of our cupboards in preparation for our travels on the road. I had some Mexican glassware in a cupboard that didn’t seem like it would ride very well, so I switched things up a bit, we’ll have to see, hopefully it won’t get shaken into a million pieces. After lunch, I spent time updating our blog with last week’s adventures. Just now got a call that, surprise, the part for the truck didn’t come in on the shipment today, but they assure us will be here tomorrow. So another day without a vehicle, oh well, it is what it is……
Wednesday, we didn’t wake up to snow – yahoo, but it was chilly outside. We had a laid back morning, I was finished up a book I started yesterday and Rich did some paperwork. After lunch we got the call we had been waiting for – the truck was ready to pick up. We got bundled up, including Gracie and hopped on our bikes and away we went. We decided to ride back on the Larkspur trail that we had discovered a couple weeks ago. It was a pleasant but cool ride. It was nice to have the truck back. When we got home, we got the fiver hitched up in preparation for the warranty work to be done tomorrow. So far besides the trip to Bend, that’s the only place we’ve taken the fiver, we are definitely ready to hit the road.
Thursday, we woke up to alarm, haven’t had to do that too much lately which has been incredibly nice. We got everything buttoned up and made it to Coachmasters by our 8:00 a.m. check in time. After running through a few additional items we wanted taken care of, we had the day to run errands. Our first stop of course was to Starbucks were we stopped for our usual latte’s….nice way to start the morning. We spent the morning running around town doing our various errands. We stopped for lunch at Schlotzsky’s and then Rich dropped me off at Pier One to look around while he went and got his hair cut. I ended up at Barnes and Noble browsing around; a kind co-worker gifted us with a gift card and I was checking out some reading material for the road. Rich met up with me at the bookstore and we ran into a friend and spent some time chatting before it was time to move on. We got the call to come and pick up the fiver, unfortunately they weren’t able to complete all the warranty work, they were sent the wrong size blind, the dimmer switch wasn’t the right one and the squeak in the furnace motor will require a new part. We’ll have to catch the rest of this down the road in a couple of months; at least it was nothing that would require us staying put. We still have our fingers crossed that the jack will arrive tomorrow morning, so they can get that put in. We could have opted to spend the night in their parking lot, but we much prefer our spot at Crown Villa.
Friday, we had to be back at Coachmasters by 9:00 so after a repeat of yesterday morning, we found ourselves back at Starbucks for another latte. Thanks to all our co-workers who contributed to a Starbucks gift card for us, we are definitely enjoying it.
So it was another round of errands, turning in the post office keys, do yet another address forwarding, etc. We stopped for lunch and still hadn’t heard from Coachmasters, so since we had leftovers that needed to be put in the fridge, we decided to run by and put them in the refrigerator and see what was up. Yah, good news, the jack is here and it is the correct one and they just need a couple more hours to finish it up. It looks like we will actually be hitting the road tomorrow, finally. We are both more than ready to start our adventure, we’ve enjoyed the last several weeks here in Bend but are definitely ready to start seeing some new scenery. Since we would leave the fiver hitched up to the truck once we got back to Crown Villa, we went and did some grocery shopping at Costco. It was a bit odd to be shopping at Costco on an early Friday afternoon, it has been our tradition pretty much all our married life, that after work on Friday we would go to Costco and Whole Foods to do our weekly shopping. We always called it our "date night". Time to start new traditions =).
So after our grocery shopping we picked up the fiver and headed back for our last night at Crown Villa. It is a beautiful resort and we have enjoyed our time here and if we are in the Bend area will definitely stay here again. Rich is getting a lot smoother backing in to our spot. We have a big external propane tank that we have to hook up too, and the tubing only reaches so far so we have to be pretty much the exact same spot each time. Because we spent the winter here in Bend, you use your propane furnace all the time and go through the propane. For convenience the resort allows you to rent a large propane tank from Amerigas and keep at your site which is much more convenient that taking the small tanks from the rig and filling them up all the time. After getting backed in, we got everything hooked back up and started loading up the truck and storage bays for our departure in the morning. Our plan is to travel to Lebanon and spend a couple of days. Rich has some more relation in the area that he’d like to see and we’ll try and get my mom down here so she can see the fiver before we take off.
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