A Good Day!

It was a better day today than yesterday!  The naproxen worked on my back, Roger drank lots of fluids yesterday, and the dog was only hyper half of the day!  Can't ask for any more than that!

We figure Rog was dehydrated from the first day.  It was so hot, he had to work outside to fix the stabilizers plus all the other stuff he had to do for first day out and wasn't drinking enough water.  Yesterday he said he drank enough water that "my kidneys ought to be entitled to get sea pay." That's an old Navy expression!! 

Maggie hyperventilated the first two hours on the road.  She jumps right in the truck so that isn't a problem, but once the engine starts she starts panting and shaking.  After our lunch break she was much calmer and even relaxed enough to sleep.  Slow but steady is the progress!   

Lunch Break in the parking lot

Had to have lunch in a shopping center parking lot today.  The rest areas in southern Oregon are not RV or truck friendly.  Since Roger hasn't perfected parallel parking with the rig (think about backing into a parking place with 38 feet of really big trailer attached to the back end of a truck), we had to bypass the rest stops.  It worked out well, though, as we had a whole back row of empty parking spaces with some shade to enjoy our noon time repast. 

Weirdest thing we saw today:  A really old Subaru painted a rusty orange/brown (or maybe it was rust).  Affixed somehow to every square inch of paint were Barbie dolls!  Seriously!  Arms and legs all over the place.  All states of dress and hairdos.  Hundreds of Barbies.  On the roof between the rails of a luggage rack were at least a hundred, hair blowing in the wind.  It was a man driving!!  Absolutely crazy. 

Lots of rolling green and gold hills in the southern part of the state, then leveling out to farms in the Willamette Valley.  The most impressive sight was as we crossed the Columbia River, Mt. Hood was clearly visible off to the east.  Those volcanoes in the Cascades are just incredible, particularly on a clear day when you can really get a feel for the enormity of these mountains!

262 miles today.  Canyonville, OR to Kelso, WA.  Weather was perfect.    It's taken three days for us to go what most people drive in one.  We don't start til about 9:30, stopping for Maggs to pee, half hour for lunch, and we arrive around 3:30.  Like Rog says, "I got no where to go and a long time to get there."