Still in Albany

At least the weather is good! The last few days have been bright and sunny, only a little morning fog that burns off quickly. There is a nice park near by actually within walking distance for Gillian and the dogs, complete with ducks and geese much to Trekker's delight. We have booked into the RV Park for another night, taking the opportunity to do a load of laundry and we each took long leisurely showers while we had lots of water and a dump station at hand. Then of course Art had to empty the black and gray tanks and replenish the fresh water.

We have an unusual motorhome beside us, quite striking. We had no idea what is was, it looked a lot like a bus but there is no manufacturer's name anywhere. Yesterday Art met the owner and we learned the details. It was a Los Angeles city bus in the 70's and the owner has stripped it and completely rebuilt it himself into this beautiful motorhome. It is powered by the original Cummins engine to which he has added a Jake brake and an Allison transmission. The owner has lived in it for 20 years.

Friday morning we woke up to rain! Art spent part of the morning fighting with the computer. It won't run YouTube videos. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing! After consulting Mr Google he decided that it was a conflict between Firefox and Adobe. He removed Adobe 11.4 and downloaded 10.3 Or at least he tried to! The download would proceed so far then stop. After several tries he chanced to look in the Download folder to find Adobe 10.3 from the original download! The installation took seconds and was successful! YouTube videos now work!


 At 1:00 PM we received a call from the Service Manager at McKay Truck and RV that the awning had arrive, bring in the rig! We had the option of spending the night at McKay's but booked into the RV Park for yet another night at the RV park for comfort and the internet.

We dropped the motorhome off, went to lunch,a used book store (see next paragarph), grocery store, liquor store and at 4:30 we picked up the rig, happy with it's new awning!

Gillian had forgotten to bring the cook book for the bread maker and Art of course loves used book stores. This one was huge, with a terrific stock. Gillian found a couple of suitable books and Art found one he had been looking for quite a while. Plus another of course. It's been a long time (if ever) that Art walked out of book store with only one book!


This is what the awing looked like when we dropped the rig off:

I'll add a pic of the new one when I remember to take one! Too dark at the moment!


Back in the RV park we put the slow cooker back on--dinner will be a bit late tonight! On the internet we began looking at road and weather reports. We planned to head east on State Route 20 towards Bend and across Oregon to Idaho. This is what we found for the route between here and Bend, which includes a pass at 4678 feet:

"Saturday, rain and snow showers likely. Breezy. Snow level 4000 feet. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Pass winds west 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Rainfall amounts a tenth to a quarter of an inch." 

We'll check again in the morning but it looks like we'll be heading south for a bit longer. We were thinking of heading quite a bit east this trip to add a couple of the midwest states; Nebraska and south from there. Now we'll have to have a good look at the road atlas.