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Our New House

It was brought to my attention that we haven’t updated our Blog since 2013. Since we have become stagnant and haven’t really traveled for a while I didn’t have much of interest to post. Not that our life isn’t interesting, there just isn’t much RV Travel going on.

Well recently we have turned another page in our lives. We decided since we like our lifestyle so much that buying a house wasn’t in our plans. However we have pretty much outgrown the RV so…

We bought a Park Model home in the same resort where we have lived for the last 11 years in the motor home. If you are not familiar with a Park Model, it is a small 400 square foot manufactured home. Ours however is a bit more than a simple park model. First off ours is set in the ground so it is ground level, then a 200 square foot addition was added making it 600 square foot overall and the whole thing is stuccoed and the roof is tiled. There is also a 117 square foot building on the property, which serves as a laundry room and a shop. This building is attached to the house by a covered patio with outdoor kitchen. Along with the real residential appliances they topped it off with an air conditioner that can turn the house into a meat locker in the 120-degree Arizona summers. You can see more photos by clicking on the link in the left column.

I have added a link to the photos of our house HERE.

So, although we are keeping the motor home, it looks like we are not Fulltimers anymore.

Best wishes to all our readers and I hope your travels are as enjoyable as ours.

I will leave the Blog up because I know others enjoy reading about our travels.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Ainsworth State Park



Today we went from dry barren rolling hills to green lush mountainous terrain. We ended up in an Oregon State Park near Dodson, right in the Columbia River Gorge. The above photos show how it looked when we started our trip today and how it looked when we ended. We traveled half the trip in Washington then crossed over the Columbia River to complete the rest of the trip in Oregon, just because we can. The photo below is a view of Mt. Hood, 11,239 feet high. I do believe it does have snow all year round. There is a drive that circles Mt. Hood but we are not going to do it this time. It is 146 miles and takes a little over 3 hours. Instead, tomorrow we are going to view the many waterfalls in the area along the Historic Columbia River Highway. The State Park we are in is nice but it is so thick with trees that we have no view at all. I was hoping for something along the river. Susan did enjoy picking black berries all day since the park is full of them. When we got here there were plenty of spaces but the park has filled up since then. That’s the beauty of getting off the road by 2:00p. We usually get first pick of sites. Actually we were done by noon today because we got an early start.

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