ON OUR WAY

September 14, 2008

We left home around noon with the plan to get to Roseburg Oregon by night fall. It must have been a dream, as we never got there until the next day. Of course this is one of the plans you make in advance and timing is not there. Originally we were going to leave at 10 am, but you know how that goes there is always that last minute check to see what you forgot to do.

Needless to say we got to Ashland Oregon and believe it or not, got lost in this small little town looking for a gas station. My Jim Dandy computer told me the cheapest place to get gas in Oregon was there.

Now with the Computer GPS unit telling me which turn to make to get to this service station it did not warm me about the 5 o’clock evening rush hour, and since this was the only gas station that had gas on sell, guess where all the traffic was heading for. To make it worse it is not a very big station and trying to pull our pickup with the RV it takes a pretty good turning radius to get around. Figure on 32 foot motor home with and 16 foot tow vehicle. Of course your in trouble if its too tight to turn and there is no way to back up the motor home when you have the two vehicles attached, Anyway had to by pass the station and travel on in hope we did not run into any dead end streets. About 25 minutes later after several circles around the town we found our way out. You know that feeling like you have been there before and you were. Another lesson learned. To save a buck it probably cost me 5 bucks more in gas.

Finally back on the freeway and headed North in hopes of finding another gas station easier to get in and out of, and hopefully an RV park a little further up the road.

We found a real nice RV campground in Medford called the Pear Tree. Nice clean RV site, not cheap, but well worth the price. They have a real nice pool and of course a great hot tub, which we didn’t use.