Last Sunday we packed up and headed southeast. Unfortunately the night before, Al had checked the tires and found one had gone flat. He’s getting good practice changing tires on the RV. We couldn’t find any tire store open on Sunday morning so we took a chance and moved out on the road again.
We traveled around Mt. Hood and over to Redmond, Oregon for The Rally. The drive was quite beautiful through the mountains and terrain that is much like Colorado. We crossed our fingers and the spare got us there.
When we arrived we were parked in the Volunteer lot and we got a primo location just outside of the gates to the Expo Fairgrounds. There was a volunteer dinner that night and we got our assignments for the week. We were on parking duty. All went well except for a rainy day parking the big rigs…we got pretty wet.
The Rally officially started on Thursday with seminars, vendors, and hundreds of RV’s of every shape and size. There were even a couple with price tags well over one million. We looked, but decided we will stick with our Everest a little longer.
Down the parking lot from us there is an Osprey nest on top of a light pole that is surrounded by big rigs. It was fun to watch the parents feed the two young ones who were the same size. Someone noted that the RV’s around the area are all covered in bird droppings and such. Glad were not that close.
On top of everything else, there was nightly entertainment. Each night was a little different from a singer who did impression of “Dean Martin and friends” to Suzanne Somers to Gary Puckett and BJ Thomas to Big Bad Voo Doo Daddy. Tonight there was a group that dresses like and sings Beatles songs. It was all quite enjoyable.
We even tried to make a new Guiness World Record for simultaneous Whoopie cushion sitting. It’s quite a sight to see, but we fell short of the record by a couple of hundred sitters. The plan is to try again next year.
We’ve met some great people and had a lot of fun, but it’s time to move on. We’ll take a short trip up in to Washington state and spend a day recuperating, dumping tanks, and doing laundry before we go up to Seattle.
More later