Haven't had time to do much on the blog the past two weeks or so. We were here in Albany exactly one year ago and I helped my friend Pat get his home ready to sale, well I am now here helping him fix and correct a few things because it is being bought. There were a couple difficult projects that had to be done. The hardest was cutting and jackhammering the basement floor to reroute a sink and shower drain. Getting to old to do that type of work. The home inspector found a few things that need attention, so we have been fixing some and others require a contractor. We are almost done! I have put some pictures of different places we have parked over the past year. It was a blast to see and do what we did over the past year and have so many more things we want to do. Our plans for the remainder of this year is to slow down some and spend more time at each stop. Depending on what happens with the sale of Pats house and how much more help he will need our plan is to move on the 1st of July to the Oregon coast. Will spend a month in Waldport, then move down the coast to Eureka Calif and stay a couple months there until it starts to cool down in the Sacramento area. We will visit with the kids and friends near Sacramento for month or so, then work our way to Quartzsite Az. Will spent the winter there and plan our next stage. So for the rest of this year we will be going back to some of our favorite spots. Will try and find new and interesting things to post, stuff we missed our first time at these spots. Some friends and family are planning on visiting us along our way. Hope they all can make it. Weather here has been cool and wet. The past few days it has warmed up and reaching into the mid 70's. Pepper is having a difficult time getting around, her back legs are shot. We have to help her up stairs, I even have a ramp for her to go up to get into the trailer. She turns 14 in a couple weeks, poor girl is starting to really struggle.
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Spent two nights at the Moose Lodge in Gettysburg. They have a 15 acre area just outside of town where they have a pond and a big area to have functions. So we parked there for the two nights by ourselves and toured the town and battlefield. We were surprised by how large of the battlefield area was. We went by the visitors center and got a driving tour brochure which had 16 different stops on it. You could spent days looking at all of the monuments and fields where the battle took place. What I found interesting was that the battle only lasted 3 days. As I posted on the last blog we decided to go to Oregon. We made it yesterday afternoon. We were going to just take our time but have problems with the trailer jacks which allow us to unkook. So we spent 3 days connected to the trailer and moved across the country quickly. Put in several 10 days driving, which is something we don't do. Glad we decided not to try and unhook because I was just able to disconnect and it stopped working. Today my friend Pat and I will trouble shoot the problem. We are staying here for at lease a month. Pat all but has his home sold and as it stands right now will have to be out by the 14th July. Paper work on sale is almost done. I will be helping him do any repairs that the home inspector finds and now looks like some packing. It rained last night, which is not unusual here. Pepper will be glad she doesn't have to travel for a while.
