After getting the toad stuff installed (see the previous post), we headed north to Mom’s house, where we’ve been staying since, doing some modifications to the coach, and waiting for a service appointment.

This was the first time I’ve been able to ride in the coach with Jenn driving, too; previously I had been driving our truck, instead of having it towed by the coach.

Here she is in the captain chair (waiting for a traffic light):

The entry steps are immediately before the passenger chair, so there is a carpeted cover that slides out over the steps at the press of a button, for more comfortable travel:

Driving down the freeway:

We normally won’t drive in the evening, but did this time due to the toad installation, so we used the day shade on the windscreen to cut down the glare of the setting sun (much like a sun visor in a car):

Here we are parked at Mom’s house:

Yesterday we picked up our coach from Poulsbo RV in Kent, WA, where it had been for a week getting some routine maintenance done, some minor issues fixed, plus adding a couple of extra solar panels and upgrading the batteries.

It was getting a little late by the time we were heading down the freeway, so once again we had the solar shade down a bit:

The coach is a bit messy at present, especially with the slides in, but we’ll get things more organized soon:

We didn’t have too far to go, though the horrible Seattle traffic made it take longer than it could have. We spent the night at Kevin and Julie’s Boondockers Welcome site near Chehalis, WA. Boondockers Welcome is a service where people can list their property as available for people to come stay for a night (or a few nights), at no cost (though a small donation to cover any electricity used is appreciated). Some people just provide a driveway without any hookups, but Kevin and Julie offer a few very nice sites, with 30-amp power and water, plenty of room, and even Wi-Fi:

We’ll definitely stay there again in the future.

After a night at the Boondockers Welcome site, we continued down I-5 and across the bridge into Oregon:

Here’s the sign on the bridge saying “Entering Oregon”:

Near downtown Portland, with a glimpse of the arch of the Fremont Bridge:

Part of downtown Portland:

Our destination: Old Stone Village RV park. It’s an interesting combination of manufactured homes and a quite nice RV park:

We’ll be here for a couple of weeks, while we take care of a bunch of things in the Portland area, and continue to get the coach set up.

Here’s our coach in the campsite, before we put the slides out:

And after (notice the window awnings, too):

Since this campsite has full hookups, I connected the power, water, and sewer. Here’s the wet bay with the sewer hose:

The sewer hose is draped across a rack for a proper drainage slope; the first time I’ve had occasion to use this rack:

Here’s our coach and truck:

This RV park is literally next door to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, with a walking path between them:

We’re very busy with Portland-area chores and setting up our coach, but hopefully will find time to visit the museum while we’re here. We’ve been there before, but I’m sure we’ll enjoy checking it out again.

The RV park has nice grounds, including a gazebo:

Water feature:

Play areas:

Unlike in previous campgrounds we’ve stayed at (admittedly a very short list so far), there are several similar coaches to ours in this park, e.g. here are two Tiffin Allegro Buses opposite each other: