Moochdocking in Florence, OR - July 5, 2017

South Jetty Thousand Trails isn't too bad ... but space A-15 pretty well sucks - bad power! In the mornings, the power would pop off. Not the 30 amp breaker outside, but my Magnum inverter would detect low voltage and shut down. My Progressive Industries EMS did not turn off the power, but the voltage reading was 106 VAC. So I turned off the 30 amp breaker and we just used out inverter from then on. One evening, I checked to see if the power was still bad. I turned it on because the voltage was 109. Then Donna made a cup of coffee in our Kuerig one cup coffee maker and the voltage plummeted to 102 volts. OK, the park is full so we will do without park power. No biggie, we will be moving on the 4th of July.


Gene is improving slowly. We take him to the doctor and phsical therapy a couple of times a week. Our old friends Don & Don came over to visit. We had met them years ago in Newport, OR when they all were still RVing.

At the Florence airport, there was a 'Wings & Wheels' event. I went and saw cool classic cars, old planes and RC planes.

Vintage!

Only $99.00 for a ride in the sky.

Crazy turbocharger!

It was pretty neat!

The weekend before the 4th, the Old Town Bayfront was gearing up for the holiday crowd.

There was even this patriotic contraption floating in the bay.

Right outside of Gene's Pysical Therapy office is this cool sea lion statute. There are a bunch of these all over Florence, but this one is covered with lighthouses. Cool!

We are enjoying our time here and so are Rumble Bunny and Tinker Belle. Here they are with their 'cat woman'.

On the 4th, we packed her up and headed over to our new parking spot. As Donna followed me in the Jeep, we drove 1.9 miles to park (moochdock) in Gene's driveway.

I strunge my big extension cord to one of his 15 amp outlets, and voltage, 121 volts. This is working out great.

That evening, we set up chairs behind our RV and waited for the fireworks. Little Don showed to to watch too.

We are just a block and a half from the Bay where the fireworks were going to go off. We had an excellant spot to watch from. The area down by the docks were packed.

There is a barge in the bay that will be setting them off.

And here we go....

Happy 4th of July!!




Fergs .... out!