Ok, so this is my second attempt at adding to our Blog. I will try and provide a real quick recap of this trip up to today, then I will post shorter post as the trip progresses.
First we left home on Oct 18 and it took us 4 days to get to Centralia WA to a 4 day TREK rally. We learned a lot about TREKs and made a few new friends. I didn’t have any repair work done to “Tickey” at that place, but they sure were doing a gang buster business. We have named our Trek Trickey, because it seems to continually trick me on one thing or another. He doesn’t like going North right now, especially since we just heard that is in ZERO in Newport! After the rally we went on over to the Oregon coast and spent a couple of nites at Rob & Sandy’s in Pacific City. While there we went to the Tillamook cheese factory and the biggest wooden building in the world, now it is a airplane museum. We then went to the Monaco factory near Eugene, that was very cool to see how they build these coaches, Mercy even enjoyed the tour. We left there for Peter & Barb’s house down in the Grants Pass area and spent a couple of days there catching up on old times. We met them a couple of years ago in Alamos MX when they first got their Trek. They wanted to come along with us but Peter is in the middle of remodeling a Victorian house in downtown Ashland so he has to stay until all the money is gone, then …..
Mercy & I like to travel the smaller yellow roads, so from there we came down into Calif via HWY 3. Now that was a trip, snow, curvey, steep, signs that said they do not suggest taking the road if you are towing, etc. We only saw about 2 others on the raod, but it was a beauty. Mercy developed cold sores on that one!
We stopped in on my aunt and uncle, Chuck & Barb in the Sacramento area and had a great visit with them and Mike & Kris, my cousin. I taught Barb how to place an ad in Craigslist. They want to sell their Bounder RV, so if you know anyone who wants a great deal let me know.
We then went on down to Yosemite. We have never been there and was it nice. We got right in, no problem. Spent a couple of nites there, saw a momma bear and her cub from about 60 feet. Really cute. We then went West to the coast, on the way we took a yellow road #229 near Atascadero. That is another of those that they say don’t take. It was gorgeous, but a bit windy and very narrow. It would be great on a motorcycle. Mercy’s cold sore acted up again.
We spent 2 or 3 nites at Pismo Beach, there were a ton of Monarch Butterflies there and it was very peaceful. There doesn’t appear to be a lot of RV out on the road anywhere.

We went on down to Steve & Lori Inlow’s house in Huntington Beach and wound up spending a few days there. We were on our way to Carlsbad to spend a week at a Time Share and didn’t have a place to store the coach, and anyway the AC was not working right, so I arranged to have it fixed while we were in Carlsbad. Got the AC fixed and solved the storage problem. Not only that, the guy we bought the coach from had transferred the maintenance insurance to our name, so most of the repair was covered. Back up to Huntington Beach after Carlsbad to get the coach and Mercy got sick. So we stayed at Inlow’s a few days more then headed off to Quartzsite for a nite and then on down to Amado AZ. Had dinner with friends Ken & Nancy from AK. We spent 2 nites there teaming up with Wayne & Donna and with Terry, a gal we met at Centralia.

A quick trip into MX early thur Nogales, then high tailed it down to San Carlos for the nite. Next day Terry left us for Mazatlan and we turned off to go to Alamos. A neat colonial town that was severely hit by a big rain storm about 7 weeks ago. They lost a lot of houses, over 200 cars, and about 25 people, but the town was already cleaned up and the roads were mostly passable. We stayed there for a few days then headed on down to Mazatlan for one nite. Of course we had dinner at Juanita’s, as good as ever. Next morning we headed out for Villa Corona, that is where we are now. We have spent over $150 in toll roads so far. Gas is about $2.50/gal. A bottle of Pacifico is about 60 cents.

So now that you are caught up, talk to you later,
Oh by the way, as soon as I figure out how to post pics I’ll do it. Got a few good ones.
Adios,