As I said, things don't always go as planned. We got from Seattle down to Elma WA about 2 1/2 hours South and we had truck trouble, the blessing is we were able to limp in to Elma and they had a Ford Dealer that could help us, the first two dealers we called said they were out 1 1/2 weeks before they could take a look at the truck so Jim told the next dealer service there was $100 bill in it for him if he could get us in to just look at it and it sounds like he did us one better and will have it fixed by tonight because they don't work on weekends, we will see. He told us it would take about a week so I paid for 5 night's camping and it's non-refundable but we would like to be on our way and the camping is unimportant com paired to traveling schedule. Poor Jim has been on the phone rescheduling like crazy. This is so stressful for him, I really think we will just bite the bullet and get a new truck this fall. We are going to do this trip next year but out to the East Coast. Army Reunion in MA. Little did I know I would be with so many Army guys and so many of them have similar personalities. Kidding, they really can't all be sarcastic or have the same dry sense of humor. I am such a simpleton it just goes over my head. If I have said it to Jim once I have said it a thousand times, "were you kidding?" I never know if he is or not.
Would you believe that the hostess to the camp ground even gave me a baggie of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Now tell me, how many times has that happened to you. She was wonderful.
What an adventure we had today, had a wonderful breakfast at "The Rusty Tractor". Then we hopped on the good old road less traveled and headed for Aberdeen WA, a couple of sightseeing things we
wanted to do, one was to go to the Polson Museum housed in the
Polson House but I mistook that mansion for The Aberdeen Mansion and went to the wrong place and the man of the house told me it was no longer open for tours but was only now a private home but if I would come back in a couple of hours he would be happy to give me a tour. Well I am no dummy, I took him up on it. Jim and I killed a couple of hours going to The Westport Winery. Was fun, tasted 5 wines, bought some pomegranate balsamic vinegar, I had been looking for some but this was the first I had found.
We went back to The Aberdeen House both the husband and wife gave us the grand tour of their beautiful home. They ran it as a B&B for 10 years and are the 5th owners of the house and it was always a private residence so that is why it was in such a pristine state. Such a lovely house too. 4 levels, full levels, I just couldn't believe the lovely ness of their home. The very top floor was a family room complete with a full pool table. The updates they did were so tastefully done and all in the turn of the century period. The house was built in 1905. 7 bedrooms and 7 baths.
We went back to Elma and stopped in at the county fair, fun and we got a call shortly after we started walking around and they told us the truck was ready, only about $1600 this time. We picked it up.
Picked up some hamburger for dinner. We are all hooked up and ready to resume our adventure. Long day tomorrow as we have to travel the whole of Oregon.
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