Chapter 8 July 13 - July 21, 2009

After spending ALL DAY at Freight Liner we finally headed to Oregon about 4:00pm.  We had NOTHING but HOT weather for four more days.  We got to Phoenix RV Park in Salem, Or on the 17th and found ourselves in ALMOST perfect weather!!  It was a little too warm during the day but cooled down to the 60s at night.  At least we were comfortable!!!

We stayed at the RV park for 4 nights before heading to the coast.  The park is VERY NICE and CLEAN and within walking distance to the store.  We were able to have a few dinners with our friends, Dennis and Darlene, and spend some wonderful evenings outside playing cards and Mexican Train with them at Willamette Mission State Park where they are Park  Hosts and we will be park hosting with them Aug and Sept.  It was so good to be amongst friends again!!

We left Salem this morning and headed to Depoe Bay on the Oregon coast.  We are staying in Fogarty Creek RV Park right on US101 and within walking distance to the beach.  I am sitting on the couch and looking out the window at some  beautiful big trees at the edge of Fogarty Creek State Park.  Of course, I do have to look through and around a few motor homes, BUT it is still nice!!  It’s supposed to be cool, not cold, and sunny during the day and cold and foggy at night. ( At least that’s what weather.com is telling us).  I am so excited!!  I don’t think I will have to shave my legs the whole time we are on the coast ‘cause I’ll be wearing long pants!!!

After setting up the motor home, we took a drive down the coast to Boiler Bay and saw 2 whales!!  Of course, we didn’t have our cameras and binoculars with us!  Then we walked through Depoe Bay.  What a cute little town.  Came back to the motor home for a lasagna dinner and enjoy the cool/COLD night.    

Chapter 7

We left Nacogdoches, TX Friday morning about 10:30 and arrived in Aledo, TX around 4:30.  We were looking so forward to some cooler weather.  WHAT WERE WE THINKING?!?!?!  It was just as HOT and MISERABLE!  We decided, shortly after we got there, we would go to bed early and get an EARLY start in the morning and not stop til the sun went down...We drove 13 hrs to Deming, NM where it was 87, cloudy and windy, and even rained a little bit...Not perfect, but A LOT BETTER than TX...We even got to watch some fireworks!!!  Sunday morning we headed to Happy Trails looking forward to the DRY heat!!  As we were driving, our outside temperature gauge kept going up and up and up!!!

By the time we arrived we had seen the temperature go as high as 116.  BUT it was a DRY HEAT!!!

Well, we have been here a week now, and I’ll tell you what, anybody that stays here in the summer by choice has got to be CRAZY!!!  The average temperature has been 110, IF NOT HIGHER!!  First day here I decided to get up early and go for my walk.  At 6:30am it was already 84.  That was the last day it was lower than 90 at 7:00am AND the LAST DAY I went for a walk!!!  

Ok, enough of the weather...we did get the motor home all put back together, and was able to move Rich’s doctors appointment from the 23rd to the 13th, so as soon as the doctor gets done with him we are heading for Freight Liner for a lube, oil, filter appointment set for 7:00am Tuesday.  Then we head to Las Vegas where it’s supposed to be 106.  BUT it is supposed to be 85 in Salem, OR when we get there on the 17th!!!

Since it has been TOO HOT to DO anything FUN, I really have nothing more to say.  I’ll write again when the Asphalt Wanderer is wanderering in COOLER weather!!!

Take Care

Rich & Dorothy 

Chapter 6 Pictures are Worth 1,000 Words

If you right click on the pictures you should be able to "open link in new window" for a better view 

Remember Me?????

Our motor home sitting with the BIG Boys (Country Coach and Prevost)

Motor Home with slides out

Notice the Name Plate?????