A Break in the Weather

We’re looking at a busy week ahead of us. It actually started yesterday with a calendar full of classes, meetings, project fulfillments, working out and just your basic life busyness. So, we were excited to discover that this weekend is going to be sunny! Just when we thought we might have to give up hope on squeezing one more trip in before winterizing the rig, we’re now excitedly planning a mini-escape. Now we just have to decide where to go. Perhaps to one of the campgrounds nearby in the Columbia River Gorge? Or perhaps we could check out Silver Falls State Park which is south of Portland (although, their RV sites tend to fill up quickly on nice weekends). Maybe we could trek out to the beach again. The sky is the limit.

One thing that we have to make sure of though, is that wherever we go, there needs to be an RV dump station. Our backup station is no longer available. We recently discovered the Camping World in Troutdale, Oregon no longer provides a free RV dump station. Rumor has it that the dump station kept getting clogged up and it took a lot of money to fix the clogs, so they just decided not to offer it anymore. That sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. What would really suck is if the Super Wal-Mart center in Wood Village, Oregon quit allowing overnight RV parking. We’ve noticed that some of the same rigs overstay their welcome all too often in that parking lot. We also know that all it takes are a few folks taking advantage of a good thing to ruin it for everybody. I checked out www.allstays.com and noticed there are quite a few Wal-Marts in Oregon that don’t allow overnight parking.

Although we absolutely LOVE staying the night at Wal-Mart (talk about an adventure), we will still plan to stay at one of our beloved Oregon State Parks. Stay tuned to find out just where we chose to escape to!