The door for our half-bathroom was sticking. I investigated, and determined that the issue was that the hinges were bent; here’s an old hinge after being removed:
So I removed the door to replace the hinges:
The old hinges were non-mortise, i.e. designed for surface mounting. But I determined that there was enough room for regular hinges, so bought some of a similar size (with a removable pin, for safety):
An installed hinge:
The half bath door works much better now:
We have been Oregonians since moving from New Zealand to the US in 2001, but now that we’re traveling the country, we have fewer ties to Oregon. We decided to move our domicile (i.e. where we vote and have as a home base) to Washington state, since we have family there, so more of a connection.
The first step in officially changing our domicile was to get new driver licenses, and re-register our truck and coach. Here’s the old Oregon truck license plate:
And the new Washington truck license plate:
The old Oregon coach license plate:
The new (and very expensive!) Washington coach license plate:
I guess we’ll need to remove that “heart in Oregon” sticker now; Washington is now our home base.
We have a new mailbox service in Washington, to forward mail to us as we travel. We’re working on changing bank accounts and my Dejal company registration. We’ll change doctors and dentists when due for our next checkups. And more. There are lots of things to update, so it’s certainly not something we do lightly.
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 84 miles from Eatonville, Washington to Shelton, Washington. (Arrival omitted for privacy.)
We drove our coach 84 miles, about 2.5 hours of driving, from Eatonville, Washington to Mom’s place near Shelton, Washington.
The map route, heading northwest (exact destination omitted for privacy):
Jenn driving our coach:
Paladin:
Windy road:
We turn around our knife block to prevent it from falling over while driving… but forgot this time, oops:
I picked it up while we were driving down the road; Paladin watching me, plus the GPS on the TV:
A water tower:
Not a huge fan of tight roundabouts in our coach:
Entering I-5:
Paladin on the dash; unusual when driving:
Shelton exit:
Shelton sign:
Not a huge fan of this narrow bridge in Shelton, either:
Paladin on my lap:
Not a huge fan of the narrow roads near the destination, too:
But happy to arrive at Mom’s place. Here’s our coach and truck in their driveway:
Slides in:
Slides out:
While “moochdocking” at Mom’s place, we hooked up the coach to an electrical outlet in the house. Our coach has a 50 amp cord, so we used an adapter to convert the 15 amp house plug to a 30 amp connector, and another to our 50 amp cord:
Not enough power to run ACs, but it keeps the fridge going, plus lights and such.
Me in the backyard:
We spent a week at Mom’s place, sleeping in our coach to keep Paladin company, showering and hanging out in the house during the day. It was great to spend time with Mom and Mike. Thanks for putting up with us!
We visited Mount Rainier National Park in Washington.
The entrance arch:
Entrance ranger station:
Park buildings, with a glimpse of the mountain:
Ancient log:
Museum:
Picnic lunch:
Waterfall:
Mt Rainier:
River and trees:
Top of a waterfall:
Paradise visitor center:
Flowers:
We stayed at Alder Lake Park Rocky Point Campground in Eatonville, Washington. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A delightful lakeside view.
Dates:
Weather:
Noise:
Site:
Internet (in usage priority order):
Amenities:
Here’s our review on Campground Reviews:
Lovely view of the lake and close to Mt Rainier
We stayed at the Rocky Point campground in site 423 and had the best view of the lake from our site. However, getting to the site was a little gnarly with our 40′ motorhome, as the road inside the park is very winding and narrow with many overhanging trees. The site was one of the few pull-throughs in the campground and just long enough for our motorhome and tow vehicle. There wasn’t a camp host on duty, but it was pretty easy to just go to our site and get settled. A ranger came by while we were at Mt. Rainier the next day and left our check-in paperwork under our wiper. There’s easy access to the day use area next door, so it was nice to cool off on a warm afternoon. The only limiting factor to this campground is the lack of a sewer connection at each site; otherwise, we would have happily stayed for much longer than two nights. We camped at Alder Lake Park in a Motorhome.
The RV park map:
A delightful lake view from our site:
Our site:
Only electric and water hookups:
Not a sewer dump:
Lake view:
Dinner with a view:
View from our site:
Moon:
Another night:
Aerial views:
Day use area:
Entrance:
Campground full:
The road in the campground was a bit tight for our coach:
Tiny trailer and tent:
Gate to the day use area:
Day use area:
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 163 miles from Welches, Oregon to Eatonville, Washington.
We drove our coach 163 miles, about 4 hours of driving, from Buxton, Oregon to Eatonville, Washington.
The map route, heading north:
We pulled into a maintenance area to hook up our tow bar:
Our new Sinclair Trails logo sticker is visible inside with the slide-out in:
Jenn driving; yes, she drives our coach:
Enjoying some coffee at a traffic light stop:
Sandy:
Interesting MAX light rail station:
MAX light rail:
Heading towards Seattle:
Paladin on the back of my chair:
Leaving Portland:
Leaving Oregon:
Stopping at a rest area:
Lunch:
The rest area had an RV dump station; nice:
Paladin:
Bridge:
A small plane taking off:
Driving:
Another Tiffin joining the freeway:
Paladin passing over my lap:
Gee Cee’s Truck Stop; quite nice and not busy:
Another bridge:
We have Sinclair Trails logo Yeti coffee mugs:
Sleeping Paladin:
Mayfield Lake:
Jenn driving:
Paladin asleep:
Highway 12:
Hey look, another bridge:
Hobo Inn, staying in train cars:
Day use area at Alder Lake:
Our destination, Rocky Point campground:
A rather narrow road within the campground:
One of the use-cases for getting a logo designed for Sinclair Trails was to put it on our coach.
Here’s me adding the logo sticker to our slide-out, above the states map:
The Sinclair Trails logo sticker; looks really good, I think:
Above the map:
We also got another sticker with the SinclairTrails.com website and social name (e.g. Twitter and Facebook):
The stickers:
I got a Vulcan bike lock to secure our bikes. It was highly recommended by other Lectric owners. It is very heavy-duty; they claim it can’t be cut with bolt cutters or hand tools — an important consideration with ebikes apparently being a high-value theft target at some campgrounds:
