68º high 52º low

We started the month of July by going to the Frontier Days in La Pine.  It is a big deal for the small town and lasted four days this year.  We checked out the vendors and Larry ended up purchasing a new hat and some plastic weld he had seen on TV.  On Tues July 5 we made a last run to Bend to Costco and Walmart since there are no Walmarts on the OR coast where we will be.  Wednesday July 6 we left Cascade Meadows for Sandy, OR to have our AquaHot replaced. 

At Sandy where our heater was replaced

We got set up outside the facility and I went for a walk and found blackberries, yum!  It took all day Thursday to remove the old heater and get the new Espar installed and then Friday morning we ran several tests to be sure everything was working correctly. 

New Espar installed in our bay.  Notice you can see all the way thru the bay now.

We left Sandy around 1 PM on Friday and ran into lots of traffic around the Portland area but once we were almost to Salem it eased up and we stopped to fill the diesel at the Pilot.  We arrived at Neskowin Creek around 4:30 PM and found a nice pull through site that we 'just' fit into.  We didn’t take out the car until the next day.

We went to Lincoln City for church on Sunday morning and saw our friends, Jack and Bev Scovil who had driven from Bay City to surprise their son.  It is a 50 mile drive on the US 101.  It was great to see them as we had just talked about when we could see them while we were on the coast.  It has been several years since we last saw them.  They invited us to a church in Manzanita on Saturday to hear a family of singers they first met in Quartzite, AZ six years ago and we went and had a good time and really enjoyed the Haining Family. 

What a talented family!!

While we were in Lincoln City we each bought new Z-coils.

In the meantime we had moved to Seaside, OR and encountered a small boo-boo when the exhaust tip hit some big rocks as the MH lowered down when we disconnected the trailer and pulled forward. 

The big rock that the exhaust tip hit (and moved) when the coach lowered as we disconnected from the trailer

It smashed the exhaust tip and tore up the fiberglass rear panel so Larry has been busy fixing that. 

The exhaust tip that was smashed and forced up into the bumper area.  Larry cutting to free things up

The weld on the muffler that Larry did when the boo-boo cracked the muffler. We are so fortunate Larry has a welder with us and can make these repairs!

The back panel before repair

The back panel repaired and good as new

Not exactly what he had planned for here!  God was certainly at work in us seeing the Scovils and the small amount of damage to the back of the MH that Larry has been able to repair.  God is good all the time!

We rode the motorcycle to Astoria for some returns and I had a shop.  We discovered Crater Lake Root Beer which is really good, at that shop and are looking for places to buy more.  Unfortunately it is only available in the northwest so we will need to stock up before leaving the area.

The temperatures in Seaside have been wonderfully cool with a high of 68º and the nighttime lows around 52º.  We have met two different 'newbie' couples and are sharing some of the insights we have gained in the last 13 years of fulltiming. 

We have enjoyed the Great Wall Chinese restaurant in Gearhart each Sunday we have been in Seaside.  We used to go for Chinese every Sunday after church for years but in the last year have gotten away from that as we could not find a Chinese restaurant we liked close to us in Phoenix.  That has changed and we are again 'on a Chinese roll'.  It feels good and we are looking forward to more good Chinese food as we tour the WA Olympic Peninsula in the next four weeks.