September 6th

The last few days we have been spending time over at Brian & Rita's place in Ocean Park, WA.  It was great to see them and spend some good time together.  Cyndy & Rita have been busy making baby blankets.  I think Rita has learned more about taking stitches out then putting them in.  Any way the two of them have been doing a real good job at finishing at least one a piece by tomorrow.  Brian and I have been staying out of there way and taking care of man things, at least that is what we told them.  Then one night I fixed dinner and Saturday night Brian fixed dinner.  I thing we both did a great job.  The girls said it was good also, or maybe they were just hungry.
On our way home Friday night just before we started across the Astoria Bridge we got some great pictures of the sun set.

Today we had Nick and Terry over for dinner.

We started off with some Sockeye Salmon, nope bad looking fish, and it tasted great.

Miss Terry brought over some great rolls and also a loaf of her favorite bread, she knows how to fix some great bread.  We had a great dinner and some great time again with Nick & Terry.  This is the first time in a long time that we got to just sit around and shoot the bull, it was fun and we look forward to doing it again when our paths cross.

Nick had a good time tormenting Spike, I don't know who had more fun Nick or Spike.

I think Nick got the bad end of the deal though.  Turbo was smart he just laid around and watched Nick having fun with Spike.  The time went by way to fast.
Tomorrow we are off to Ocean Park one more time before we head off on our next adventure down the West Coast.

September 3rd

Yesterday was kind of a sad day for us, our Grandson Jared head home with his dad.  We really enjoyed our time with him.  He does like the pool and is getting really good at swimming.  We also did a little bit of geocaching which both Cyndy & I enjoy doing.  It is neat to look for the geocaches because it takes you through some really great areas.  Jared was a lot of fun to have with us and we look forward to our other grand kids getting a little bit older and taking them with us on outing in the years to come.  It is nice when they are at the age of knowing what is right and wrong.
Last night we went out to dinner with some long time friends Terry & Nick.  We seem to cross paths about once or twice a year and just love Nick's humor.  Terry looks great and Nick is Nick.  Cyndy had asked them about a good Chinese Restaurant place here in Seaside. So we head out to the Great Wall in Gearhart.  I will say the food was great, but the company that we had was the best.  It is always fun talking with Terry & Nick about what they are up to and how things are going.  They both look great and are doing a great things, like turning the Gypsy Journal to all digital.  I like it digital because it is easy to store and a great source of information when we are traveling to those area that they write about.  I hope we can get together one more time before we take off to our next trip.
Today I have a few things to get done, and we have a little bit of running around before the football game tonight.  I will miss one thing again this winter when we are south and that is watching the SEAHAWK'S. Ok it is time to get going or nothing will get done today!!!

August 31st

It is hard to believe that just over two weeks ago we were rapping up a great trip to Alaska.  The people on this trip were a lot of fun.  Just think in another 2 weeks we start another trip going down the West Coast.  It will be a lot of fun, we have done a lot of the spots we are going to.  We know a lot of the people that wre traveling with us, so we should have a good group of people on this trip.
Today we got up and had the last 8 inch cinnamon roll that we picked up on our trip to Alaska.  We had frozen a couple of them, because we like to cut them into slices for french toast.  Our grandson wasn't sure at first tell he took his first bite.  I thought he was going to eat the hole thing before Cyndy & I got a peace.  We are enjoying our time with him along with the time we spent with the other two kids.
This late morning we went out Geocaching, Jared really likes doing this.  He is getting better at finding them when we are out.

We found one of the caches near this great view out at the coast here in Gearhart, just north of Seaside.  We did pretty good today with 9 for 9 finds.  We are thinking about heading up to Fort Stevens for some more Geocaching later this week.
Tomorrow I take the truck in for one more thing that needs to be done and that is a front end alignment.  After putting new tires on the front end I like to have it checked out.  Hope there is nothing major.  We are hoping to go with Brain & Rita to Mo's tomorrow for dinner.  I think we are going to head up to Dairy Queen for a after dinner blizzard, that sounds good the hole family is up and out the door before I can say anything else.

August 28th

It was nice last night to hear the rain falling on our roof.  It can put you to sleep real easy, but last night we hadn't heard the rain in a while it made it a little hard getting to sleep.  It was a lot cooler so we both will enjoy that.
Yesterday when we got here to Seaside all we could find was a 30 AMP site, here on the north side of the park.  So this morning when out walking the two little people I spotted a couple leaving early (7:00 AM) checked out the power and it had 50 AMP, so in a little over 12 hours we are moving the short's distance in a while.  After getting all hooked up again, we ate breakfast.  I found one of those big cinnamon roles from Alaska trip ( the one in the 8 inch cake pan) so we cut it up and made french toast out of it.  Our grandson was questioning us, but he went to town on it and said it was great.  Would Nana or Papa  fix you anything but the best.
Next I went to Les  Schwab  to get the two tires on the back of the trailer replaced after the fixing the axle.  While there I talked to them about the Hood to Coast Relay which is this weekend, and this is what they told me that over 15,000 runners and their support teams will be in town. They told me that if you don't have to go out stay home because it’s going to be a madhouse.  So while I was there I called Costco about getting the tires for the truck done also today, so that we will not have to leave the park this weekend if we don't have too.  They said come on down and they will do it at 2:00 PM.  So we went and did our Costco shopping while they changed the tires for us.
So with that done we don't have any thing to do this weekend but go swimming with our grandson and just relaxing around here.  We might even do a little geocaching.  It is suppose to rain pretty good here tomorrow with high winds so it might be a day to stay inside and enjoy some together time maybe even watch a movie.  Who knows what will happen.

August 27th

It has been a while, but I really have to vent about RV DEALERS SERVICE DEPARTMENT.  When we finally got all of our mail we found a letter from the Manufacture of our coach saying there is a possibility that we have faulty studs on our wheel hubs.  So I called Blue Dog Service department (because there is no dealer on the west side of the Cascades), and told them that we received this letter and what do we have to do.  They said they need to look at them and besides you have a appointment for the 27th at the 8:00 AM to fix your slide that is not going all the way out.  So this morning we showed up at 8:00 AM expecting them to fix the slide and take a look at the wheel studs.  So after dropping off the trailer we head out for breakfast and some things we need.  Then we were going to  do a little geocaching.  Wait a minute the phone is ringing and it is Blue Dog saying the trailer is ready for pick-up.  Wow!! They are on top of things and got everything done, nope, they didn't do nothing!!!!!  They said the wheel studs are OK, they couldn't do anything about the slides tell the manufacture gets the pictures and let them know what to do.  Ok, I asked who is paying for the 400 miles of fuel I just spent on coming over here to get this fixed, what do you think they said!!!!------.
OK that is it, I have extended warranty and now it is time to use it and save myself some frustration.
Anyway we left there and headed towards cooler climate like the Oregon Coast.

This is some of the burn area near Roosevelt, Washington.  We were driving up 84 towards Portland and seeing a lot of burn area.  You have to pray that know more people loose there homes.  We had a good drive and made it here to Seaside, Oregon.  This has to be our favorite TTN park, lots of room around each site.  I stopped by and said hi to Nick and Terry and later in the week we will have to get together for a dinner one night.  Tomorrow we need to get a couple of tires on the trailer replaces, after getting the axle fixed.  Tire a lot cheaper here then in Washington, saving a good hunderd buck, yes.

August 23

We have been back in the Spanaway area for 8 days and have got a lot done before we head out on our next tour.  Lets get you up to speed.
When we were on the Alaska trip I started hearing a funny noise from the rear end of the truck.  You know that noise that you no what it is but really don't want to say anything about it.  Well it held together tell we got back to Spanaway and on tuesday I took it to Riverside Ford and had them rebuild the rear end.  Now that is done and the noise is gone, YAH!!!!
Next is I noticed the back tires on the trailer are wearing a little bit funny so we have a appointment at Kimball's on Monday to get the Axle straighten or at least put the way it is suppose to be.  After that is done two new tires on the trailer, don't like to have tires the are worn on one side.
When we get to Oregon it will be time to buy some new tires for the truck.  The fronts have over 54,000 miles not bad and the backs have just at 35,000 miles.  With the weight we haul I figure that is pretty good.  We usually go through at least 2 sets of back tires to one on the front.  It is part of maintenance on the truck and trailer.  Like a house every once in a while you have to put in a little money to get it moving again.
Wednesdays we leave for Pasco to get some Warranty work done on the trailer.  Not much, we found after a week on the trip we found out the the slide on the drivers side was not going out all the way.  It needs to go our about another inch.  Also we have a safety recall on the studs on the wheels, something about them breaking!!!!  So after all that we will be in Seaside Oregon relaxing before we head off on our next trip.  It feels good to have a little bit of time to write a little on the blog about what is happening to the Gypsy Olsen's.  More to come as we head to Eastern Washington, we are hopping that we don't run into any fires.

Post of our Trip to Stewart/Hyder Alaska

When we arrived in Stewart we were greeted  with a little rain, or should I say a lot of rain.  After everyone got in we took them down to the bear viewing area.  So here are a few of the pictures I took when we visiting the Bear viewing area.

 There were a lot of Dog Salmon in the stream, but not any bears.

 We were all waiting around for the bears to show up.  The park ranger says their has only been one bear showing up lately.  I hope we get to see it.  After about and hour or more we decided to go and get some dinner than come back.  After dinner we head back and we got lucky and seen one male grizzly bear.

 He did a lot of fishing for a while.

 After fish it must be time for some dessert, berry's sound good.

 OK to much dessert time for more fish.

 Hay, you guys don't all need to run, I just want one of you for now.

 Which one do I want.

 Not up on my birds but this one was different then the regular gulls eating on the fish.

We also seen this beaver in the pond down from the bear viewing area.  We were lucky because the next day we never seen another bear.  One is better than none.  We had a great trip and looking forward to our next trip.