Sunday, August 14 On to Salem

We got out of Redding quickly and headed for Yreka to meet with Kim, our real estate lady, who had listed our 2 ½ acres in Fort Jones. She did not know where the property lines were, so we meet her in the Wal-Mart parking lot at around 11:30 A.M. and she drove us out to the property, where we walked the property lines. We got back to the trailer, popped out the pop-outs and had lunch there in the parking lot before heading north.

Our Fort Jones property. Anyone want to buy it!

We have at our disposal the Trailer Life RV Parks and Campground Directory, The Next Exit book, which tells you about all the amenities at every freeway exit, a cell phone, a GPS Navigation unit, and a 3G Apple Ipad 2, which connects to the internet any time there is a Verizon cell signal. With this array of goodies, Jan can Google the various prospects for RV parks, read the reviews, call the RV parks for availability, pay by credit card over the phone, punch the address into the Nav unit, which plots our course, gives voice commands for every turn, and tells us our arrival time. We also monitor the outside temperature from the Truck’s overhead instrument panel and our altitude from the GPS unit. We can also email, post on Facebook, text and talk on the phone, all while rolling down the road. Need entertainment? No problem. With DirectTv, we can get 200 channels and movies from Showtime, HBO, and Encore, all in High Def and even 3D on some channels. This is not your father’s RV trip!

Anyway, we found an RV park in Salem, Oregon, and spent the night there. While popping out our living/dining room slide, one side of the slide wouldn’t move, so it was stuck partially out. Uh-O! Can’t go anywhere with that! I had visions of having to replace the hydraulic pump or worse $$. Being an (ex) engineer, I went down under the slide to have a look and figured out that a bolt attaching the shaft which drove the one side of the slide had sheered off and needed to be replaced. Not so bad.