August 17, 2010 Springfield, Oregon

After the Rally we headed to Springfield, Oregon.  At the rally John had one of the service reps look at the bus. Mainly because in Missoula he had been in a hurry and plugged the wiring between the bus and the car in upside down and shorted out the connection between the car and bus. He tried to fix it, but made it worse.  they fixed it but the bus still  needed some minor tune ups. Their shop was in Eugene.  When we left Redmond the bus started making a funny noise. John took it in to a shop in Redmond and one of the  air bags for the pneumatic leveling had a broken valve. It had to be replaced. Took 4 hours, mostly waiting our turn. I napped in the bus in the shop. Then we headed to Springfield. Our friend Scott and Leslie live in Springfield, so we parked at a nice RV park there. Dropped the bus of the next morning and spent the night at their house. Picked the bus up and spent a few other nights in the RV park to visit.

Leslie took us on a hike up Mount Pisgah the next day.

We went on a short hike in a near by park with Lilac, Scott and Leslies dog. Into a hazel nut orchard. I had no idea they grew there, in fact I was not sure they even grew on trees, could have been like peanuts underground. We bought some hazel nuts to take with us at a farmers market.   We also got some huge peaches that were so juicy we ate them in the parking lot,then borrowed their hose to wash the juice off us. We found ripe blackberries on the hike and picked a whole bag full. Yum.

Sue and John in front of a section of a huge tree. When we were in Redmond I got this new bedspread for the coach. It was getting too beige for me in it. Looks great.

John, Leslie and Lilac(rolling on the ground) in the hazel nut orchard. Wild turkeys on the road

Scott’s garden in the Alley

John with a snake on our hike, Leslie and Scott sitting in the passenger chair of the bus.  the chair was made for a BIG, WIDE  passenger. They joined us for dinner.

Sunset over the RV park.