DAY 23: We Are So Blessed.......

Tuesday, June 23: Junction City, Oregon

Well folks, did you enjoy Chuck's Blog yesterday?  How sweet of him to write the Blog and just so all his fans know, he's out of the dog house.  Yes, he forgot my birthday.  Yes, he's a man.  And yes, he suffered for it all.  But today was a new day; yesterday is over and all is well in the world again.....except Obama is still president....  

Anyway, as you know from yesterday's Blog, the dealership here could not locate the problem with the RV.  Could not make it fail.  Errrrrrrrrrrr.......so today I was DETERMINED to make this silly RV fail.....saddled up Chuck and Murphy in the RV and headed down the road to drive around the area for a few hours.....the problem always seemed to rear its ugly head when the coach had been driven for a few hours....made sense to drive it around the block for 3 hours and then turn it off.  Well, thats pretty much what we did.  We drove up the road; drove down the road; drove to the truck stop and got the RV washed (never turning it off); drove back to the RV dealer, pulled into the service bay, said a little prayer, and turned the puppy off.  Went back to my computer in the RV and paid some bills and then came back up front to turn it back on..........drumroll please..........keep it coming.......is it going to fail........oh, please fail.........please please please fail..........turned the key......waited for the airbags to inflate.........and we're waiting.........and it starts.  Ugh........ I'm not believing this.....

So tomorrow we head back to Cummins.  I know, folks, this sounds like we have something really major going on with the RV, but in reality, its probably something very simple; loose wire, bad fuse, something very simple that is making us crazy.  So who knows what tomorrow will bring....

We were lucky enough to find ourselves with wonderful neighbors here in the RV-SICK Campground.  We have Connie & Gill from California next door to us.  They have been RV'ing for 8-9 years and unfortunately, find themselves having fried the microwave and satellite.  Not their fault; a campgrounds fault.  But they are just the nicest people ever!  Unfortunately, when Chuck spoke of us on the trike on the side of the road yesterday, he was referring to Liz's meltdown on the side of the road.  We had pulled over so I could get a grip.  Who do you think drove by and stopped to help?  Yep, our friends Connie & Gill.  How sweet......I was embarrassed they had to see me that way seeing as we had just met them that day, but hey, a woman can't pick the perfect time to fall apart, right???

 Then we have John and DeeDee and their adorable pooch, Scooter, down the way a couple coaches.  They are newbies like us and live in southern Oregon.   They make our RV problems look like a cakewalk & I feel guilty for complaining!  They are retired and John is a Gideon.  You know, the Gideon Bibles in hotels that we've all seen.  What an inspiring guy!  He has such an upbeat attitude and fun to talk to.  He could go on the road doing a comedy routine about his RV challenges thus far.  His lovely wife, DeeDee, is amazing.  She has the kind of personality that makes you want more of her.....you want to learn more and more about her.  They both have hearts of gold and have even extended their stay here to help us hopefully get our Rv issues resolved.  You see, they unfortunately hold the prize of knowing the service people the best.  They are the ones you want on your side to help plead your case.  So, they have been invaluable to us and extremely helpful.

So you see, sometimes we are dropped in certain places at certain times for certain reasons and I think I'm slowly figuring out why we were dropped here.  I can honestly say that everyone (with the exception of the Truck Wash guy today) has been so wonderful here in Oregon and Washington.  From the dude on the motorcycle in Washington who motioned for us to move into a different lane cause the road was so rough up ahead to the service people here in Oregon to our wonderful new friends, we have been extremely blessed.  

And I'm blessed to have my Charlie..........(& Murphy!)...

Oh ya, we hope to be putting another YouTube online tonight.  Go to

* www.youtube.com

* In the Search field, type MURPHYSMOM1

* It should bring up all the YouTube videos we put online

P.S.  Happy Birthday to my sister-in-law, Lucy, today!!!