August 28, 2015 Eugene, Oregon

We made it to Eugene and are now staying in the coach!! Woo Hoo!! Of course the coast has been clear and sunny for most of the summer. Today it started being rainy and cloudy.

 

Beautiful pines outside of Bend, Oregon. On the way we stopped at Belnap hot springs for a soak. Lovely place. There is also a lodge and camping. It would be fun to stay here with the bus for a few days sometime.

Home Sweet Home. They are not totally done with the bus yet, but very close. We can stay in it while they finish the work, we just have to be out by 730 am on the days they work on it.  Feels wonderful to be home. Before and after photos. The top is before. Below is as it is now. Love the flooring, it will be much easier to clean. In the before the couch is sun faded and yellowed in irregular patches. We had it recovered. The original tube TV was removed and a flat screen was kind of bungee corded into it’s place. It was still in the old cabinet that you smacked your head on when you come in the door and it wobbled when you drove. The new one is built securely into a much smaller cabinet and no longer a head banger.

Before there were mirrors on the far walls and around the stove and bathroom. They are now replaced with wood on the walls and there will be tiles around the stove and bathroom sink. They will put them in next week.  The front had a protective coating applied. It had aged and cracked, it is now gone. We had wanted to have some of this done to the previous bus, but hadn’t got around to it yet. This one we are doing now all at once so we don’t have  to make multiple trips back for it.

  

We visited our friends Scott and Leslie when we got here. Scott is building Leslie a massage studio behind their house. She is a massage therapist but she rents an office. He has been working all day getting the roof on.  The last step was getting the felt put on to water proof it. It is of course supposed to rain this weekend. John jumped in to help. They finished sometime after dark. Leslie and I sat in the garden and supervised.