Friends & Family, Thunderbird TT - Monroe, WA - May 23 - May 30, 2015

Friends and RV Dreamers, Bill & Diane (bjoyce) are wonderful. They gave us an auxillary braking unit for our Jeep. It is a Brake Buddy Vantage Select.

That pretty much saved our financial lives. We were going to have to do without (illegally) for a while. We will 'pay it forward' later.

I drove them over to their storage unit in Poulsbo to pick it up. We crossed over and back on the Washington State ferry system.

It was a neat day. Good views of Seattle.

The next day we went out to burgers at Five Guys. Good burgers, and good friends.

Then we had an appointment to have a base plate and some electrical work done on the Jeep at Poulsbo RV in Everett. After an hour, they finally got us in.

And out! They ordered the wrong part for our Jeep. We will do it again next Tuesday. That gave me time to wire the 'brake away' switch for the brake unit. We hope it is the correct part this time.

We did some visiting with our Son & family. Donna is crocheting toys for the boys. And I did some more work on the solar/inverter install.


I installed a switch to kill the power between the panels and the charge controller.

I ran the 1 inch 'smurf' tube under the rig to contain the 4 gauge solar wire from the combiner box on the roof to the electrical compartment.

Here is where the conduit goes up and into our bedroom, on it's way to the roof.

With all the wires and cables now into the electrical compartment, I'm ready to get everything hooked up.

I'm getting there!

Saturday, we travelled over Stevens Pass to East Wenatchee, for our first ever Ferguson 1st cousin family reunion. Kim, our daughter was there too. My dad had 8 brothers & sisters, our Aunts & Uncles, and they produced 28 children. My cousins showed up from WA, ID, MT, and NE. There were 16 of us there.
What a great time.

My cousins:
Joy, Chuck & Darrell

Judy, Larry, Richard & Donald

Reita & Sara

Alex & Kris

Marilyn, Dusty, & Corky

Sharon

And me.

Here is our group shot.

There was lots of spouses and family members there too. A great time!

We finally got our Texas plates for the motorhome... yee haw!

Our cats are happy.....

And we are too!