Today we awakened at a leisurely 8:30, drank some fortified coffee, had breakfast and then got to work getting the trailer ready to move. Normally this activity would be performed when we are departing from an area but in today’s case, it was to take the trailer to La Pine for new tires.
We were pretty slow starters so it was 11:15 before we dropped the trailer off at the Les Schwab Tire Center in La Pine. I chatted a bit with the service writer before cutting our truck loose from the trailer and driving up the road to Bend to visit a Lowe’s store and the local Oregon liquor store. Oregon has bizarre and archaic liquor laws that require ordinary drinkers and drunks to get their manna at OLCC stores only. Their prices are high, but not as high as the exorbitant prices in Washington. Washington used to have state liquor stores but they privatized liquor sales without removing the cost for running the stores resulting in prices high enough to make drunks quit drinking. A 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels is $30 in California, $45 in Oregon and $65 in Washington.
By the time we made it back south to Sunriver, where our camping spot is, the tire store called and told us the new tires were installed on the Barbarian Invader. We kept right on driving to La Pine where we re-acquired our trailer and drove it back to the same spot we have been using in Bend / Sunriver RV Resort. Les Schwab’s guys did a great job, charging us only $775 for four new tires, spin balancing and new steel fill valves. I had budgeted $1000 so I was delighted.
It has been below freezing the last few nights and it looks like that trend will continue for the next few nights. I have been filling the on-board water tanks in the afternoon so we can disconnect all the hoses outside and empty them. I thought I had most of the water out of the hoses I stored outside but this morning there was a big icicle hanging from the end of our water supply hose. It was neat.