What was I thinking

Got up and on the road at 4am, rode from Pahrump to Bodie and back, nice little 660 mile round trip. I should have put a few warmup rides under my belt instead of just going off cold. I learned I am outa shape for a long ride. With only 100 miles left to home the rear tire blistered/delamed on me, once it cooled down the thumping did go away, so I nursed it home at 50/55. Think I'll try going darkside with a Falken 195/55/r16 and see how I like it.

Toyhauler

Yup got a toyhauler. It's a Weekend Warrior we picked up in Stocton, Ca, 31 ft long, well taken care of. We have a few minor fix ups to do but not much.

March already

March has arrived, we've had much more gloomy weather and rain than normal, blame it on El Nino. We are now a two quad family as well as we have a p/u truck. I haven't owned a p/u for years, I like having a p/u, I guess a toy hauler is next, LOL.

Another month

Yup, it's another month gone by...Cuzn Helen and Bob have been in the area, weather has been real wet, sidewalk around house is put in and automatic drip lines for watering the trees are in. Vaughn, our grandson, is growing like a weed... ... Must be time to go riding.

New Year

Okay, finished last day of 2009 with a ride on the quad, went to the snowline at Mt Charleston, had a great day. Started the first day of 2010 with a ride on Smokin' with the Marine Riders of Las Vegas, Smokin' managed to do a wide open run, way fun!!! Now it's time to take down the holiday decorations.

Getting antsy to go

Either need to get the wing out or the quad, I think this staying home is making me ill.

Christmas

Christmas has come and gone, now a week of looking forward to the new year starting or the old year ending, which will it be?

As we update the House

Now the house looks a little better with the driveway in.

New direction

Now that we have a house I'm probably going to have to redo this site. I'll think on it a bit before I decide how to proceed. But, we are in our new house, everything is just about changed to our liking and the motorhome is at the local dealership trying to figure out the next step for it. The big stacker trailer is gone, has a new home in California.

Update

Haven't posted in awhile, between the disappointment of the awning fiasco and movin on down the road, I just haven't felt up to it. A lot has happened this month, sold the trailer, bought a house, relocated. Maybe after we get in the new house we'll get back up to speed on the blog posting.

I know why the MH industry went belly-up

What do you expect when a simple awning repair takes a month. Yup, we are still in Oregon, waiting for a part for the awning from that far away distant land, called California. Girard awnings, wow, what a way to go.

Back in Coos Bay

Okay, we've had the family reunion, everything went well. We stopped at the new Monaco RV LLC by Navistar facility which is the same facility that Monaco used to have, with the same people, all the same except now they have no liability for any of the old Monaco product or people. Neat trick that bankruptcy gives them. Our first experience with the new company did not go well. On a bill of only $21.80 for a minor adjustment of the awning they tried to tack on $10.00 (almost 50%) to the bill for "hazardous material disposal". After arguing like crazy we finally convinced them to take it off the bill. Man it's tough dealing with pompous asses afflicted with a bad case of idiocy!!!

Now we are back in Coos Bay waiting for parts to fix the slide out awning. They were supposed to be here yesterday but did not show and are still not here on Friday, oh well, maybe Monday. LOL.

Off we go

After ruining a day and a half, and pissing away over $1300.00, we are off again. Only temporarily though as the repair facility has had to order some parts and we will have to return next week to get the motorhome fixed. We are at the family reunion site and await the arrival of the rest of the family. This park seems to be really nice and should make for a great reunion location.

Another Monaco Day

Yup, this Monaco product broke again. This time the awning over the slide out has broken and is jamming up the slide out. It's taking us a day and half to find out the problem, now we'll order parts and come back later to get it fixed. Monaco makes junk!!!

Day Two

Traveled to Gold Beach, Oregon. Found a campground just a little north, kinda rustic. Went to the county fair, a really small one, walked around then headed for dinner at the Port Hole. We've eaten there in the past and as usual, excellent food. They had fresh Ling Cod, it was great. We'll spend an extra day here and head out tomorrow.

Day One

Today is day one of our trip to the family reunion. Met up with Cuzn Helen and Bob on US101 and traveled to Eureka. Evening meal we all headed over to the Samoa Cookhouse. Later while sitting around visiting we got a call from Cindy and Ron, they live just a short distance away and drove over with her son Curtis for a nice visit.

Odds and Ends Day

Today is the tie up the odds and ends day. Gettin ready for the trek north. Gonna travel the coastal route so it should be a lot of interesting stuff to see. First time traveling with Cuzn Helen too.

A new adventure

Okay, here we go, kinda back to normal. Can you guess where we are. Hints are, on the left coast, near a man-made lake, and it's been hot while here and now just warm. This is the spot where a couple of years ago we had two blow-outs at once, do you remember that?

Stealth Mode

Nice thing about traveling in stealth mode, nobody know where your at.

To the Jackass

To the Jackass that's been following my blog attempting to gather info to create problems, "Are you sure you know where I am?" maybe you best look to your back, I could already be there.