Patience Tested

   This guy is patient.  He knows that sometimes you need to wait for the right time.  I am not as patient as I should be.  I am readay to head to Arizona as soon as we get back from Klamath Falls.  The weather has changed our plans and now we will leave the trailer here at home, travel to Klamath Falls on Wednesday, have our family Christmas on Thursday and Friday and then drive back to Eugene where we will wait.......

    The reason for the wait is me.  To be more correct it is because on last Friday I got the opportunity to ride in an Ambulance to the hospital.  One minute I am lying in bed with my wife cuddling and the next she is trying to wake me up.  It wasn't a case of passing out.  It was something different.  EMTs came, and thus the ride to the ER at about 9am.  By 1pm, after lots of tests, attached leads, and samples, I was discharged with the thought that I had passed out from low fluids.  My wife did not agree with the diagnosis.  Me being low on fluids is unlikely because of all the water I drink.  I don't drink beer, pop, coffee.  Milk and water is about it. 
    The ER doctor called me about 2 hours after we got home and said that the blood tests had come back and it seems that I had a seizure of some kind.  What caused the seizure is still unknown.  Until the hospital calls with appointment times for an EEG and a MRI, we are waiting.  Then we will have a conversation with my doctor.  Until then, the ER doctor told me not to climb mountains, get up on the roof, and worst of all, not to drive.  So our trip south is in an holding pattern right now.
     It is interesting how your life can change in one day.

Last Day of Fall 2012

   It is Thursday Dec 20, 2012 and I'm ready to go.  I mean "I" am ready to go.  We aren't ready.  Most if not all the the tasks to complete before launch are completed with the exception of one.  The trailer is back in the shop.  Remember that I had trouble with the bedroom slide?  Both the track and the gear were missing teeth so were replaced the second week of Aug.  We left for Malheur a day late because the parts had to come from Indiana.  Well, guess what the new gear sheared off three teeth and another is on the way from,--- you guessed it, Indiana.  Warrenty on the part is 90 days and it has been all of 150 days.  Of course the fact that during that time the slide was operated maybe 12 times, means nothing.  Oh well, at least it happened here in Eugene.   I am about to call the shop to see if the gear came in today.  They haven't called me which gives me the feeling that it might be tomorrow.
    Packing the trailer is not going to be a problem.  We done it many times.  The problem involves travel.  Getting the rig across the mountains in winter is an "Iffy" proposition.  My prefered route is Hwy 58 from Eugene, through Oakridge, Willamette Pass and then to Klamath Falls, Alturis, Reno, Vegas, and south.  An alternate roulte is I-5 south over Sisikyou Pass down to Bakersfield and then east over Tehachapi Pass.  That is the route we took last year because of snow in the Cascades.  I prefer the first route because of less traffic and better views.  Also, we can visit our kids in Klamath Falls on the first day and then head out from there the next day.   This year has a twist.  We are having our family Christmas in Klamath Falls on Dec 26-28.  
   See my problem? 

  So the plan is to watch the road reports and checking ODOT/Tripcheck and go when the opening presents itself.  Wish us luck.

Two weeks until take off

Got a couple of items checked off on my "To Do" List.

1.The bikes are partly disassembled and loaded into the bed of the truck.
2.The trailer tires were all put at 78 psi.

3, Yesterday I trimmed the cherry tree and some branches of the maple trees that have become major leaf producers

Two or three items left to do.  (Just as I get to the end, I discover several more have been added to the bottom) They will stop soon because the list is getting near the bottom of the paper.

A new rig? Maybe

I am thinking of a new
RV for next year.

 What do you think?