Home Again!

Well, Plan A involved staying gone for a couple more days, however, once the wheels of the motorhome touched Oregon ground, homesickness set in, and we made a bee-line straight for home.

Coming down our street, we were first greeted by a portion of our front fence downed by a skidding car on an icy street, not long after we left on this trip.


The Sheriff had called us early one Sunday morning and informed us of the accident, but this was our first look at it. Oh, well, not a major problem, we’ll deal with this tomorrow.

Then the entrance of our Quail Bend greeted us. It was so good to see.




Isn’t it amazing how good home looks after you’ve been gone a while, especially, in our case, for four months!

A peek out the back door, showed the river was up and the pond area (that seldom has water in it) between our place and Milt and Donna’s house next door was completely filled with water and several ducks and one lone goose were merrily swimming away.


Walking around the yard, I find the tops of jonquils peeking up through the earth, promising Spring to be on it’s way.


Ah, it’s so good to be home…then Don checked out the well house. Water was flooding out the door into the yard thanks to a broken pipe. In other words, we had no water to the house.


Thankfully, there was still water in the tank of the motorhome, so we had someplace to brush our teeth and use the bathroom.


The next day the “Well-House Guy” showed up and $500 later we are back to doing laundry, dishes and flushing inside the house.


We could have done without spending the cash, but since it was the well house and not the main house, we are not going to complain too much.


Don will do the repairs to the drywall and such himself.


Don, of course, has done the calculations on our trip which are as follows:


* Time gone: Four months.
* Miles traveled in the motorhome: 9,222.
* Additional miles put on the car sight-seeing when the RV was
parked: 5,402 (does not include towed miles).
* Most paid for diesel fuel: $4.00 gallon (thankfully, not till the last
day out).


All in all it was a wonderful, wonderful trip! Thanks for riding along with us.


We'll give you a heads-up when we leave again in a month or so. We hope you come along on that trip as well.