Wednesday, July 31, 2013

July 28th to 30th - WA to Florence OR

July 28th – Sun – to Rochester WA
We had coffee, packed stuff up and wandered over to Larry & Barb’s where crab was already being cooked.  I helped Larry clean crab and they gave us 4 to take with us.  We hugged goodbye and pulled out about 10:30 for a 3 hour drive to Rochester WA and the Lucky Eagle casino.
There was a lot of traffic heading north on I5 and an accident at one point caused a huge backup.  Southbound was busy but moved right along. 
We arrived at the casino and found different rules for RV parking.  We backed into a site and went to the casino where we discovered that we had to register at the hotel so we stayed to play slots for a while.  When we finally went back to the hotel, we found that we were in a site with no services (there were electric & water but they were locked) and we weren’t supposed to put out slides!  Oh well, it was free so we decided to stay.  I got a free buffet lunch in my birthday month so we had a late lunch (3:00) at the casino and didn’t need dinner.  We put out the bedroom slide and watched TV for a short time.

July 29th – Mon
Since we didn’t have power, we went to the casino for coffee and ended up “staying & playing” for a while on very little money.  Points on our casino cards and a senior special let us have a breakfast/lunch buffet for little $ before we hit the road.
We were heading south & west towards the coast and ended up at Spirit Mountain casino just out of McMinnville.  There is no easy way to get there from here!  You end up on a road with stop lights & traffic nearly all the way from Portland.  There is a huge parking lot for free overnight RV parking so we set up & went to the casino to register.  I came back before Terry, shelled the crab for dinner and enjoyed a drink.
Terry hooked up the generator, put up the satellite dish and watched TV for a short while after dinner before he started falling asleep.  Put away the generator & crash!

July 30th – Tues – to Florence OR
This morning was a repeat of yesterday – get up late, go in for coffee, play slots a bit and have lunch which was very cheap with coupons & points on our cards.  Our destination today was the RV parking at the Elks club in Florence.  We stayed here previously and with water and 50 amp power is a deal for $15 per night.  We backed into a spot, registered for 2 nights and headed to yet another casino!  We got back in time for a late dinner, TV & bed.

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