TrackTown, USA: Finally! We are on the road, in our motorhome, and pointed south to the beautiful Motorcoach Country Club. We've seen our family and friends. Tidied our house. Annual medical check-ups completed, flu shots, yadda-yadda... and one last visit with Dave's knee surgeon - and we are out the door.
As usual, our first stop is two hours south to Eugene, where our RV will have her annual check-up, lube-oil-filter, dash air conditioning service, yadda-yadda, and a new oven installed. (If you may recall, our 9-year-old oven died on the last night of our trip to Napa this summer.)
Are you jealous of our exciting life... or is it very similar to your exciting life?
We left the Magna Peregrinus with our amazing tech, Brian Van De Walker, at Premier RV of Oregon. While Brian worked on our check-list, we went to Cafe Yumm! for one last Yumm! bowl.

I order the same thing every dang time, though every dang time I SWEAR to order something different the next time. Why mess with perfection. (Note to Colleen: I have a jar of Yumm! Sauce for you.) When will Cafe Yumm! open in the Coachella Valley?
After lunch, we went to the 5th Street Public Market to visit Mindy's Needlepoint Shop. Mindy always has fun canvases to stitch. Difficult. Intricate. Challenging. Gorgeous. Colorful. Mindy also has the most amazing collection of silks and wools to stitch with, and I can usually find something fun. Mindy's husband came into the shop today (to repair a door) and I learned they were married just a few weeks after Dave and I - same year. Thank you, Mindy, for having such a wonderful space and for being so helpful.
While at the 5th Street Public Market, we saw a massive pumpkin on display. Dave thought it would be fun to take a photo of Bubbe with a gigantic pumpkin to send to the grandkids.


Late in the afternoon, we returned to find the new oven installed, our dash air conditioning re-charged and a new lightning dock for my iPod. Yes. I have an iPod Touch. Don't laugh. I don't want to keep my music collection on my phone. I'm a bit of a dinosaur at times.

The new oven has the identical footprint as the older model. Brian removed the old oven and replaced it within an hour. I have read all the literature on the new oven, which I think is nearly exactly like our old oven - with one very sad difference.

If any of you have the GE Advantium PSA9120 and know of a work-around, please advise. The GE website claims there is no work-around... unless the work-around is buying an actual clock and adhering to the wall. Dang - for the last nine years, we have used the oven clock as our go-to time piece in the motorhome.
Rat farts.
Until my next update, I remain, your timeless correspondent.
RV PARK: Premier RV Park. I-5, exit 199. Large paved pull-throughs. Back-in sites line a small lake. Laundry, fitness center, club house, bath house, recycling, small store. 50 amp, free wifi. This park is very popular with RVers for repairs and maintenance at the many nearby RV facilities. A lot of live-ins. We are paying $56 per night. Ouch.