October 20 to 22, 2013; Coburg Oregon and Monaco RV Service

OCT  20, Sunday; To Coburg, Oregon
It is cloudy and 47* F at 8:30 am; the forecast is for sunshine this afternoon.  For the Coast maybe but not in Coburg!  It was almost 60*F when we left and it is 50* here, go figure!?  Anyway, we dumped, hooked up the jeep and were on our way by 11 am.  I fuelled @ $3.99/gal then went North-East on Hwy 126 to Eugene, a very scenic drive then north on I-5 to Coburg.  We arrived at MONACO RV SERVICE at 1 pm.  We are parked with a half dozen other rigs and we have power and water on a nice blacktop parking lot.

I got a text from my daughter earlier that her mom had to go to the hospital and was transferred to Vancouver General Hospital.  Apparently she had kidney failure caused by the same or similar germ that caused all the havoc in Waterton Ontario.  She is in Intensive Care and five, yes five specialists are looking after her.  We are keeping our fingers crossed for her and sending her all our best wishes. 

We went into North Eugene for some grocery and to do our laundry.  We got back in time to enjoy some sunshine then it was dinner time.  After dinner, we called the kids!

We drove 72 miles in one hour and a half at an average 44 mph

N  44* 08.471
W 123* 03.432
Alt: 399 ft

 

OCT  21, Monday, at Monaco RV
We were up by 5 am and in the office by 7:30!  It is foggy and remained so until about 2 pm when the sun finally came out.  I spoke with the Serviceman, Matt, and we went through our list.  They will fix everything and give me an estimate on replacing the slides’ seals as they are getting old and worn out.  We left and went to find a restaurant to have breakfast.  I got a call from MONACO advising me that the seals on the roof needed replacing and soon so I told them to go ahead and do the job.  This was discovered after they investigated a slight bubble on the passenger side which was caused by an old leak.  I’ve been wanting to do this so that is a job behind me.  We found an RV spare parts store south of Eugene and investigated it but found nothing of interest.  From here, we went to the shopping mall along I-5 and looked around.  I ended up buying a pair of slippers and new a portable propane stove at CABALAS which is a big sporting chain down here.  It is a man’s man store!!!  After that, we went to TRADER JOE and bought 6 bottles of wine (Cab Sauv. and Malbec from South Africa) at a ridiculous price of $3.99; can you believe that!??  We stopped at a small bar and had a beer and nachos then came back to MONACO RV.  We sat in their lounge for about ¾ hour and they brought our BEAVER out, back to our spot...# 14!  There are about 8 MH here right now, some have left and some have arrived.  We are set up and having a glass of wine.  Tucker is finding this all strange....we are not moving!!!

 

OCT  22, Tuesday, more repairs, more sight-seeing
More fog this morning but not as thick so the sun came out earlier.  We went for breakfast at the “TRAVEL CENTRE” near here with 4 other couples who are at MONACO RV for repairs too.  New acquaintances and very nice to boot!  Afterwards, we drove to an RV Store nearby but they didn’t have anything however they told us about another place in Harrisburg, about 12 miles from here so we drove there on the back roads.  Very pretty whenever we could see out of the fog.  This place was quite big and used to be a CAMPING WORLD store.  Prices were reasonable and I got everything off my list except for the tire covers.  We came back, under sunshine, to Eugene and went shopping for a cream Val has been looking for but no success.  We came back to Coburg, a historic town, incorporated in 1873, looked around and found a pub where we had local beer and lunch...HUGE hamburgers and delicious! 

We came back to Monaco and found out that our rig should be ready by 10 or 11 tomorrow so we may be heading out to Crater Lake, a three hours drive!