Wednesday, April 24, 2013 (Charleston, OR)

　
Wednesday was the day we were pulling out of Lebanon and headed to Guaranty RV where we purchased our fiver. We needed to talk to them about the remaining warranty work that wasn’t able to be completed at Coachmasters in Bend. We got packed up and headed out about 10:30 a.m. It was a pretty day for a drive. We arrived at Guaranty and checked in with Dean our warranty rep. It looks like they are swamped and wouldn’t have time to check any of our items out today but could make us an appt for May 7^th. Well that didn’t go as planned but that’s the name of the game – flexibility. We thought we’d probably be spending the night in the Guaranty parking area so hadn’t really made any plans for Wednesday night. Looks like we’ll be heading to the coast a day early.

We drove over to Florence and then headed South. It was early afternoon so we decided to stop at Honeyman State Park and see if they might have a site we could fit in and spend the night and regroup. We pulled in to the parking area and got out and talked to two camp hosts who assured us that yes, they would have sites that would fit our 37-foot fiver. So in we went, wow that was an adventure and one I hope we don’t have to repeat any time soon. We found one of their longer sites that we thought we could back into. All the sites were heavily treed with lots of brush and the driveways were very narrow. After several tries, we got backed in but it was terribly unlevel, hmmmm we could probably make it work but we weren’t terribly crazy about the site in general. We decided to walk around and checked out some others. We found one that appeared more level and should be fairly easy to get into so back to the fiver we went. I was walking behind Rich as he drove to the next site, he made a wide turn around a corner and was pulling forward and all of a sudden I was yelling "STOP". The fiver was about to scrape a tree, boy that happened fast. With disaster narrowly averted, we both looked at each other and said let’s head down the road; this park is for much smaller RV’s than ours. We weren’t that crazy about the park in general and it just wasn’t worth the work to try and get our RV into one of their sites.

Last year we had stayed at a nice full hookup RV park just south of Coos Bay. It would be a bit of a drive, and much longer on the road than we planned to be, but off we went. We got through Coos Bay just fine and pulled into the Oceanside RV park after 3:30. After our last adventure, we needed something simple and asked for any of their pull through sites. Well wouldn’t you know, some group had the whole park practically reserved Thurs – Sunday and had reserved all the pull throughs so if we wanted to stay longer than one night a back in site it was. Well we found a site that we liked and there were no obstacles to maneuver around, so we’ll take it. We got set up and crawled into our home, boy it felt good, we were exhausted.

That’s one nice thing, wherever we go at the end of the day we get to sleep in our own bed and be in our own home. Even Gracie likes that. She has her favorite spot on the couch on top of three pillows which puts her just at the right height that she can lie there and look out the window. So after a quick dinner and a walk on the beach, we called it a night.

I spent some time doing some research on where to spend the next couple of days. If we don’t have to we want to stay away from traveling with the fiver on the weekends. Also having to be back in Junction City May 7^th has kind of put a different twist into our traveling plans, oh well we’ll get it figured out.