I had a ton of crud to do when we got home mid day today. We drove down via one ferry crossing to north central Oregon coast, stopping at odd places, eating good and funky food and just having a blast with our dogs on the beach.
The coolest place was staying in a historic pasture on the beach in Tierra Del Mar, Oregon but we also had fun in Brinnon WA coming and going as well as Fort Stevens near Astoria OR. Previous to this our longest trip out was 6 days. They van drives awesome, now getting better and better mileage, over 15.5 MPG. Wife drives it as well, so easy. Around 2600 miles now.
Hwy 101 is fun but in a van = limiting. One truly scary event. Some clown passing opposing traffic right in front of us. Wife hit the brakes hard and the people on that idiot's side did as well, thank God. Drunk, stoned, raging?? Or just stupid? She was kinda freaked and jack on adrenaline so I asked her to pull off. No problem but both of us...........
Another negative is Juno in the van. She just really can't cope. We may need to drug her. I dunno. She pants, shakes, and paces. She does it, but hates it. This dog is otherwise FEARLESS. Piper? She just sleeps, no cares at all. And they are both great camp dogs.
1 shower in 7 days, kinda nasty but not as bad as finding a huge human turd in the back shower stall at the state campground. Some people. What do they eat??
Anyway, scarred for life, we had a bunch of dirty clothes and towels and dog beds etc..........I had to clean our porta potty and thank goodness the wife didn't go...........it was urine only, we dumped it twice as I recall. Worked great!
The van smells of bad backs, fear and alder smoked salmon.
Stuff at home not a ton but of course one of the CR-123 batteries in motion detector supposedly died. I think I missed this one. It had a Ray-O-Vac.
The coolest place was staying in a historic pasture on the beach in Tierra Del Mar, Oregon but we also had fun in Brinnon WA coming and going as well as Fort Stevens near Astoria OR. Previous to this our longest trip out was 6 days. They van drives awesome, now getting better and better mileage, over 15.5 MPG. Wife drives it as well, so easy. Around 2600 miles now.
Hwy 101 is fun but in a van = limiting. One truly scary event. Some clown passing opposing traffic right in front of us. Wife hit the brakes hard and the people on that idiot's side did as well, thank God. Drunk, stoned, raging?? Or just stupid? She was kinda freaked and jack on adrenaline so I asked her to pull off. No problem but both of us...........
Another negative is Juno in the van. She just really can't cope. We may need to drug her. I dunno. She pants, shakes, and paces. She does it, but hates it. This dog is otherwise FEARLESS. Piper? She just sleeps, no cares at all. And they are both great camp dogs.
1 shower in 7 days, kinda nasty but not as bad as finding a huge human turd in the back shower stall at the state campground. Some people. What do they eat??
Anyway, scarred for life, we had a bunch of dirty clothes and towels and dog beds etc..........I had to clean our porta potty and thank goodness the wife didn't go...........it was urine only, we dumped it twice as I recall. Worked great!
The van smells of bad backs, fear and alder smoked salmon.
Stuff at home not a ton but of course one of the CR-123 batteries in motion detector supposedly died. I think I missed this one. It had a Ray-O-Vac.
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