Welcome home well almost

Past blog readers have seen my little calender that I put on my laptop. I mark an x every day we are gone. I put O on the days home at Christmas. It's hard to believe that after about 5 1/2 months we are about back to Federal Way. There is no more room for and X.

When I last left you the next day was up in the air. It turned out that with my cold, I decided to stay home for the day. Sue and Elaine went out to lunch and did some shopping. I went over in the afternoon and we all went to dinner for the last time in California. It was sad to say good by. We will see Elaine in a month or two back in Federal Way.

Thursday we headed north. I Wanted to get a little closer to the Napa Valley so we drove a bit past Bakersfield to Pixley RV Park in Pixley California no less. It was a good place to stop. A neighbor had a dog that looked like a twin to Charlie. His name was Charger. The moon was nice as well.

Friday we headed north again. We got to Calistoga in Napa Valley about 6:00. We stayed at the Calistoga Fair grounds again. This is the fourth year for the Fairground. It was late so we went out to dinner. After dinner I watched Star Trek again, then we hit the sack. I was glad as my cold has slowed me down. Saturday morning we got up had breakfast in town and went to Cakebread winery. Remember, Sues favorite place. After Cakebread we went to Mumm for Champagne. We rejoined the club. That means we get a couple bottles of Champagne every other month in the UPS truck. We then headed back to Snuffy. Sue needed to do her last laundry on the road. (She wants here own machine at home) There was no laundry at the Fairground so we decided to hit the road.

Now the original plan was to head out of Napa to I-5 and up north with a stop at the Lake Shasta area for some sight seeing. Only problem was that there was this late season storm coming in, so we went the 101 route up the coast. Which got us to last nights stay.

Last night we stayed at a spot called Redwoodriver RV Resort I found this place thru Trailer Life RV parks. Lets just say that the place did not meet up to the advertisement. It was a place to stay and that's about all you can say. I did not take any pictures mostly because when we woke up this morning the monsoons had arrived. Sue got her laundry done, but she was really upset about the cleaning of the place. We were glad to leave this morning.

After a long drive thru lots of rain and snow. Yes snow. The reason for giving up I-5 was because of snow in the Sisques remember. Yep we got snow along the coast. Not too bad, but it was snow.

Anyway after all this we have ended up in Brooking Oregon at the Port of Brookings RV Park. This is one of Sues favorite places. We are about 100 feet from the ocean. It is raining and the wind is blowing. I have talked about this place before. There are a lot of cats that like to live in the rocks of the jetty. Just click on this (Sue is in heaven) for a review of the area. The weather was a lot better that day.

So today is Easter and Sue made a really great dinner. We had ham, Scalloped Potatoes and Carrot salad. Charlie hoped for spillage. Tomorrow we should be in Lincoln City to visit the casino and home Tuesday. Just hope the weather is OK. So as you see today was our welcome back to the Pacific Northwest. Rain snow and oh yes a lot colder. Happy Easter everyone.