Setting up at Seattle RV Show

We are driving from Spanaway up to Seattle everyday, because it is safer and cheaper then staying in a RV park for $50.00 a night plus. They did have a place right up in the industrial park area for us to park but we said no to that also.  Anyway we got our booth pretty well set up, all we have to do is put up some balloons and we are set to go.

  We only have a 10 foot booth but it is just right.  We will be putting on about 9 seminars during the 4 day show. I hope we get a few sales out of this one.  We have been doing pretty good so far this year.  We are on the second floor of the Century Link Expo Center. Stop by and see us and take a chance at winning trip of your choice: Rose Parade, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, or 1 of the 3 Mega Rally's in Mesa, St. Louis, or Nashville. We are facing the arena,

 and a great view of the rigs on the floor.

  Tomorrow we open so more to come later.

Picked up new Pin Box

This morning after we dropped off Jared at school we head out for Gresham, Or to pick up our new pin box.  Maybe I should back up just a little, we have Jared every morning at about 5:15 AM.  His mom drops him off and we fix him breakfast and then get him off to school.  Not bad and we get to see him a lot more when we are here at home.
Now back to our trip south to Gresham, we started out heading to the freeway but hit a traffic jam, and had to turn around and head out another way.  It added about 10 more miles but we were moving.  We got to Blue Dog at 12:00 noon and they had the old hitch out of the truck, air bag off in about 2 minutes and on the new pin box and back in the truck.  This has to be the shortest stay at Blue Dog we have ever had.  They have done us right on everything they have fixed.  I said we need a new igniter for our stove top, but I miss understood the and they did fix it last time we were here.  I just found out when I tried it the other day, my lose there gain for a great job done.  Any way we got back home at around 3:30 PM and the new pin box was installed right away.

I forgot to take a picture when it was light out so had to go out and take one when it was drak, but still looks great and looking forward to trying it very soon.
On our way back north we were able to see a few of the mounts in our area.

Mt. Hood was looking good as we headed across the Columbia River.

The next on we seen was Mt, St Helen's.

Just a flat top on her.  We had a quick look at Mt. Adams, but could not get any pictures of it.  What a beautiful day.  It made the drive a lot easier, we both enjoyed it.
Cyndy was trying to get pictures of the boys, but they just didn't want to be very helpful.

 Turbo would not look at the camera.

Spike said, OK I will look!!!!
Tomorrow we head up to Seattle to set up the booth and see how long it will take us, I am thinking maybe about and hour.

The back seat of the truck is full, and we will put two tables in the back of the truck in the AM for the drive north.

Clear Day

The last few days we have been doing a lot of really nothing.  We have got to see 3 of our 5 grandchildren. It was great to talk to both of our kids and see their family's.  We are staying at our god-daughters place and have enjoyed talking with them also.  I am going to be helping them get there garage wired in the next few weeks.  We got the panel hung and a few box's.  We will have to get a hole hog to drill holes throw the beams in the pole building so that we can run wire.  If everything goes right we can get this done in the next couple of weeks so that they can get power run to the garage.
Cyndy and I are getting ready to head to Seattle for the RV Show at Century Link Expo Hall.  We were going to stay up near the Expo center but as a little concerned about the area.  So we will drive their every day, it is only 44 miles one way and the coach will be a lot safer. We have everything ready to load into the truck, and Wednesday we will head up to get the booth set up.  So if you are planning a trip to the Seattle RV Show stop by and see Cyndy & I we will be in booth 55.
Today was the best day we have had scene we have been back here.  We have had a couple of days with no rain but this the first day that we had a beautiful clear day.

  Mount Rainier was out in all of it glory today.  It may rain here in the northwest but days like today make it all worth it.  We are going to have a few of these clear days for the next 5 days, YAH!!!!
Tuesday we are heading back down to Gresham, OR to pick up the new pin box for the coach.  Then we will have everything fixed on the coach and ready to hit the road again, but not for a while.  We are going to stay around here and enjoy the grand-kids and relax for a while.

Sleeping isn't all it is cracked up to be!!!

Yesterday we parked just out side of Blue Dog's RV Service Center for our appointment this morning.  Did I tell you it was by a road that looked like it might be pretty safe.  We had plenty of room and was off the road OK, but the traffic got worst then better as the night went on.  We hit the rack at about 11:00 PM and they were still a lot of traffic.  I think around 3:00 AM it quite down but by 5:00 AM it was back up to full load.   So last nights sleep was just a light nap  for the both of us.  I think tonight we will be hitting the rack a lot earlier.
Well Blue Dog did us right, we got the slide out fixed, they checked out the leaky air conditioner and resealed it,  and got the ladder recall taken care of.  This morning when I checked the UPS tracking web sight it showed that the new pin box was going to be delivered today.  The UPS person showed up and no pin box, so maybe it will show up later.  Well about 11:00 AM the web site showed redirected and will be delivered tomorrow.  So the pin box will not be fixed today.  So Blue Dog had us out and on the road by 1:00 PM heading up to Tacoma.  Blue Dog is going to call when the pin box shows up and we will bring the old one down on Tuesday and they will put the air bag on it then we will head back home.  So it looks good on this end.  They will also send us a new igniter for the stove when it gets into there shop, it is on back order.  Blue Dog did us right!!!
We made it to Decia & Chucks house by 4:30 PM, got the coached parked, water hooked up, power hooked up, and now it is time to relax and enjoy life.  So it is good night from this end and looking forward to a good nights sleep!!!!!

Here we come Blue Dog RV Repair

This morning was layed back and in know hurry to get moving.  All we were going to do today was drive to Blue Dog RV Repair in Gresham, OR.  We got up ate some breakfast, then start putting things away.  It was about 10:30 or 11:00 before we pulled out of the Long Beach TTN park.  I was a little worried about the pin box but it was fine.  We had no problems at all today.  Wil is happy now.
We got to Blue Dog at about 3:00 PM and went into the service center and talked with David Martin the Service Adviser. We went over everything that was to be done with the coach, 1 new gear box on slide, 2 center air checked about leak and possible damage, 3 recall on ladder, and 4 installing new pin box which will be here tomorrow.
 I didn't tell you this but yesterday I received a phone call from Lippert who makes the pin box.  They were shipping the lower jaw out yesterday and we should have it by Friday.  They gave me the tracking number and it will be arriving by end of day tomorrow a whole day early.  Yah, maybe they will get that done and we can head home tomorrow.
David said he seen know problem with getting everything done so we will see how it goes. Looking forward to getting homw with the coach fixed and mom happy!!!!

Pin Box back together

Yah, the Pin Box is back together and all looks good.

 If I don't say so myself it looks pretty good.  I want to thank Brian for coming by to help lift it back into place.  It went together pretty fast and we are getting ready to head out tomorrow for Gresham, OR.  We are going to leave here around noon tomorrow for the Blue Dog RV repair shop.  We are going to get the slide fixed and a couple of other things.
Then today I got a phone call from the Trailair company and they said our new pin box would be their on Friday for us.  Now I called Blue Dog and they no nothing about this, so now tomorrow I will call the Trailair company and see if I can get a tracking number so we can find out when it will be here.  So everything on this end is going a lot better.

The lake here in the park has went down about a foot from the first day we showed up here.  Tonight we went out to dinner with Brian & Rita, we head to Mo's in Cannon Beach.  This is our favorite Mo's on the coast and everything was great.  Clam Chowder was nice and hot, and the dinner was great also.  We had a great visit with them and looking forward to the next time we get together.  We are hoping to be back here in a month if not sooner.
On the road tomorrow!!!!

Pin Box?

Well this morning we were up and on the road by 8:30 AM.  We were heading over to Warrenton to find some one that would weld the pin box up solid so there would not be any movement.

As you can see it moves way to much now.  So with some luck I found a shop that would weld it for cash and no recite.  It saved me money and he made some money and everyone is happy.  When I left he said remember I did not weld this for you, I said yep, I did the welding no problem.  It is something to do with liability welding a pin box.

 So this is what it looks like after all welded up, I am happy with it and all it has to do is last until we get the new pin box.  Tomorrow morning Brian is coming by to help get it back in place.

All we have to do is left it up and slide it onto those dogs and the rest will be a peace of cake.  Will let you know how that goes after we get it back in place.
We did a little bit of running around while we were waiting for them to weld it up.  Our first stop was at the vet for the boy's nail trim.  Then we were off to Costco for a few things we needed.  After that we headed over to Jo-Ann's for Cyndy to do a little bit of shopping for something she need.  One more stop at Fred Meyers for the rest of the grocery's that we need and didn't get at Costco.  Then it was time for lunch and Cyndy wanted Taco Time, so off we went to Seaside for lunch.  On our way there we spotted some thing in the field of Seaside High School Football field.

Their had to be about 25 head of Elk in the Football field, the pay must not be to good for the lawn mowing job they are doing, because they were laying down on the job.  I have seen them around Seaside once in a while but never like this.
We made it back to the coach and both of us are trying to fight off the cold so the rest of the day we are sitting back and relaxing for now.