We had an open agenda for today so we started by taking a cruise east of our current RV park in Lakeside, OR. However, before we even left the park, we noted a kite festival or some type going on in the adjacent city park and the kites were very spiffy. They even had an enormous kite shaped like a whale shark and it looked like it was swimming when it flew.
Since we got out engine replaced back in March, the function it performs called “Cleaning Exhaust Filter” has been weird. Sometimes, at low speed, the truck puts out clouds of gray smoke when it is cleaning the filter, choking anybody foolish enough to tailgate. It quits after a few miles but anyone behind us when it is doing it had best fall back.
After leaving a pall of stinky smoke down the main drags of Lakeside, we turned out toward US-101 where we could punch it and get the engine running a bit harder. Sure enough, after a bit of freeway speed, the smoke quit. We had driven as far as Winchester Bay and we were going to wander out to the Umpqua Lighthouse when we got a call from our daughter. It turned out she was only about 10 miles from our current digs at Osprey View RV Park. We agreed to meet there.
It was a complete surprise to me since the next time I expected to see my daughter was going to be in late 2018. We got to chat a bit with our kiddo before she had to continue her drive back to her soon-to-be former lodgings in Mukilteo, WA.
We hung at the trailer for a bit before getting bored and going out for a walk around the RV park. It is actually quite nice here, other than the puny RV spaces. The weather is being quite cooperative with temps around 72, sunny skies and nice breezes. I was so delighted with where I was that I even agreed to accompany Peggy to the local market for supplies. We are now stocked up, set up in a place we want to be and ready for some more of the ravages of retirement.
We took some pictures and you can see some of today’s sights if you click here