August 23 to August 26, 2012 - Eagle Valley Campground, Cle Elum, WA

Our Chapter of the Good Sam Club decided to make a trip to the Eagle Valley Campground in Cle Elun, WA. We have 1 outing a month (except winter months) and it was Rick Reams turn to choose. He is a member of the local Eagles Organization here, so he got us in the Eagles campground.

It is a 144 mile round-trip from Wenatchee. We convoyed with 8 other rigs. The campground is located close to I90, but the traffic noise really wasn't that bad. We checked in at the office and we all got setup together.

We did a lot of socializing with the other members. Some of us went fishing at nearby Cooper Lake. We all got to enjoy a great potluck.

Donna and I, along with Jim & Eileen and their grand daughters, played a round of mini-golf.



And we had time to straighten up our house. Here is some good pics of our new recliners and desk. These recliners are much more comfortable that the ones that came with our Cameo. The desk replaced the table and chairs.

When we got back home, I washed our rig before parking back in our temp home. Next trip is next month to Oregon for the RV Dreams Rally.



August 16 to November ?, 2012 - House-Sitting, East Wenatchee, WA

We are now back in the ole 'Sticks & Bricks'. We are house-sitting. Bruce & Carol, two really good friends from our church are takeing off on a RV trip in their motorhome. They asked us if we would like to house-sit for them and we (of course) were delighted to. They will be gone till mid November or so. They have an apricot orchard where we can safely park and set up our RV. This will work out great for all of us.
Here we are parked next to their RV.

We will park under the cover after they leave.

Bruce and Carole will travel East across the northern states to Massachusetts, stopping at such places as Yellowstone and Niagara Falls. They also will be checking out various Civil War sites back east.

 What fun! There goes Bruce.

The start of a 2 month trip.

Carole getting the toad ready to hook-up.

There is my new parking spot.

After they left, we hooked up and moved her into the parking spot.

So here we are ..... hiding in the apricot orchard.



Things inside are a bit un-organized since we are heading out on a Good Sam Chapter outing this thursday. Then we will be able to get parked for a while till our trip to OR for the RV Dreams Rally.











July 26 to August 16, 2012 - Crescent Bar Resort, Quincy, WA

We are back at Crescent Bar Resort again. We will be here 3 weeks this time. It was a quick 34 mile trip. This time we are in site number 97.

Kim and her friend Cody came to visit us for a weekend. They set up a tent while Fergizmo (our Travel Gnome) watched.

A few days later, Our Daughter Candy came to visit with Chase and we also got to watch Rome for the weekend. It was pretty hot all weekend, so we spent a lot of time in the pool We had a great time.

We took a quick trip to Burlington on the 5th and visited Camping World. We spent a couple of bucks and brought home a new Sleep Number bed, A combo washer/dryer, telescopic ladder, water pressure regulator, and a few misc. items. The bed is great. The washer will be. It was a royal pain to install.



Sunday night, the 6th, the wind was blowing pretty hard all night and our power kept going off and on. I got up to monitor our shore power voltages and saw that one leg of our 30 Amp power was dropping to 60 volts and bounceing all over. I quickly went out and flipped the breaker on the power ped. I sure was glad to have a good surge protector. See what I found in the morning.



Kim came back to stay with us till school (Eastern WA University) starts next month. It is a little crowded, but we are doing just fine. On Saturday mornings, they serve all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in the lodge. Yum. Yum.



Randi is loaning me a motercycle to use to commute back and forth to work for a while. It is a Lifan 250 dirt bike (street legal). I quickly realized that it isn't a road bike as the top speed is only 60 mph and that is downhill. It will be great to use when we start house-sitting in East Wenatchee later this month.



We have been living in our RV now for over a month. And we are still slowly getting organized and finding a place for all out stuff. Today we have only 321 days till retirement and we take off. This lifestyle is not bad. Not bad at all .



Life is good .



July 22 to July 26, 2012 - Wenatchee River County Park - Monitor, WA

We left Soap Lake around 1030 AM for our 66 mile trip to the Wenatchee River County Park in Monitor, WA. On the way, we stopped at a DOT weigh station that was currently closed. I weighed the truck and 5th wheel, then unhooked and weighed the truck again. I still have to examine the numbers, but it all looks good.

Arrived at Wenatchee River County Park and set up in site 33 of the D loop.

This park is very clean and neat. Lots of trees for shade and pretty green grass with paved sites.

We are located by the Wenatchee River. I thought about getting my fishing pole out...but didn't. There were a few mosquitos here though.



We let our cats (BooBoo and KC) for a bit. They enjoyed it.



Here is a cool wood carving we found right beside the nice and clean restrooms/shower house.



Here is Fergizmo (our Travel Gnome) watching over our site.



This was a very nice clean park to stay in while visiting the area. I had a nice short drive to work these last 4 days.