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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Full-Timing For Five Years (Plymouth, WA)

We are in Plymouth, WA on the Columbia River for the next three days before moving on to Spokane. Here's a photo of our new neighbor nesting in a tree directly above our RV. She would like to invite one of our cats up for dinner, so we will be keeping an eye on our new neighbor.

So, for some catching up...March may have been a very wet month, but we managed to stay busy.

We said good-bye to Newport and to our sea loving friends.

Newport, OR

Next stop was to Nehalem Bay State Park for five days. We found a nice site near the sand dunes with the beach on the other side.

After our 4-hour travel on windy and very bumpy roads, the cats were very insistent about getting outside. Once they had their leashes on, it was mayhem and cat-a-wallowing until the door opened.

They all spilled out and immediately - Hitch started climbing trees (it's a good thing he is on a retractable leash), Dusty cried while chewing on grass and the last two did a lot of exploring...in different directions, of course. It was like watching land-lovers getting off a boat, dropping to their knees and crying "land! We love you Land!" Gee, it wasn't that bad of a travel day, but we could not get them to admit it.

Here's a view of our "backyard" in the state park. Wouldn't you love to have a house here with this view?

We spent one day driving around the area. We stopped at Wheeler to walk around their downtown area. Their little train stop is quite cute.

We spent most of our time around the state park. We walked along the beach from the state park to Manzanita - a quaint and very interesting artist-filled town.

We like this town so much that we went back a couple of weeks later. The second time, we brought our son, Shaun with us and we ate at a nice little restaurant called Left Coast.

Shaun and Dan

After five days, we moved back to Seaside. We got a couple of sunny days during our stay.

Spring break has been going on between Washington and Oregon so the area has been very busy with families enjoying the beach.

This drummer was keeping people entertained.

The Seaside Resort is set in a wetland area. The ducks and geese have been spending a lot of time in the area. The cats have been alerting on a couple of Mallards as they waddled by our motorhome totally oblivious of the dangerous drooling cats in the windows.

A great place to walk with scenic views of mossy trees and water....

...lots of water flooding the campsites. At one point, the mini ponds had ducks swimming around.

The fifth wheel owner almost needed a boat instead of a car.

The Flavel House Museum

Shaun drove down from the Seattle area during our last weekend in Seaside. We tried to show him the beautiful coast of Oregon, but the weather wasn't cooperating so we took him to Astoria to show him some of the lovely old houses like the Flavel House and the Astoria Column.

Shaun's visit with us was short, but it was wonderful to see him one more time since we are not sure when we will be in this area again

Work and Travel Plans 2014

Dan has been busy lining up work for us. He has the rest of this year all planned out. We will visit family in Spokane in mid-April. From there, we will head to South Dakota to renew our drivers licenses. In May, we will be working as camp hosts in Glenrock, WY, in a small campground on a river that also does rental kayaks, tubing, and paddle boarding. Not too bad of a job working 20 hours each with another couple and the owners. That will last through September.

In mid September through 23 December, we have lined up a job with Amazon for seasonal work in their Kansas warehouse. That will be a tough job with 4/10 hour days and later 5/10 hour days, and some potential voluntary 6/10 hour days if we want the additional overtime. After we are finished with this last job, we will drive through Lawton Oklahoma for a quick visit with our daughter and grand daughters, before heading, hopefully, to a warmer and drier early new year winter stay somewhere in the south of Texas.

5 Years Of Full-Timing!

March marked our fifth year on the road. Wow, we have seen so much and have met so many people in the last five years. Sandy put together some simple collages to show where we have been and what we have experienced in our five years full time RV living.