September 10-14, 2015 Emerson Winery, Oregon back to Oregon Motor Coach

We are finally out of the shop and on the road!!

I should not be surprised that there are Bridge magazines, but this one caught my eye in a bathroom.  We stopped at Silverleaf in Albany, Oregon, to get one of their engine monitoring devices in the coach. We got the nickel tour of their factory and here is Art showing John the model he wants.  They can’t do the installation till Tues, so guess we will hang around this area till then.

  

We are parked at Emerson Winery, outside of Albany, Oregon at a Harvest Host site. Through Harvest host we get to stay a night free of charge at different wineries and other interesting farms etc. We just have to participate in whatever they offer. Here is our host Tom giving us a couple glasses of wine to taste. I don’t know a lot about grapes, but they grow mostly pinot grapes here. There wines are very good.We ended up buying two bottles.

Grapes and part of a vineyard edged with oak trees. They have 30 acres of grapes.

The coach on our first night away from the shop  and actually on the road.  John BBQ’d dinner and we ate outside. The view from the coach of the vineyard. It is so nice to be out where it is beautiful, quiet and dark at night.

 

Sunset over the oak trees. NOOOOOO. The refrigerator quit working. We drove back to Oregon Motor coach the next day. They gave us priority treatment and pronounced  the fridge dead and ordered a new one. Of course it was Friday so the new one will come in on Monday.  Also on the way back when ever John turned on the right turn signal  the starter fired. Very weird. Here they are under the coach diagnosing the turn signal/starter problem. That ended up being a loose screw that caused a short. They fixed that on Friday.

So we spent another weekend in Oregon Motor Coach’s parking lot. They do have electric hook ups and a dump station, so it is not so bad.  In the company of other Country Coaches. We rarely see any Country coaches on the road. They quit making them in 2010 – a week after we bought ours. So being in the parking lot with 8 is kind of cool.

Scott came over for dinner to keep us company. Nice sunset too.

 

The reflection of sunset in our back windows was kind of double X rated. This is is a photo of the old fridge, also the mirrors on the wall and the tile on the floor.

The new fridge, with no mirrors on the wall and no tile. Looks good. The black trim looks better with the new floors. They used the same walnut door panels from the old one on the new one. The pocket door between the kitchen and the shower is closed in this photo. Oregon Motor Coach lent us a cooler for our food from the dead fridge, and let us put our frozen stuff in their freezer.  They had to take out a window to get the old fridge out and the new one in. Guess it is bigger than the door.