July 31st to Aug 2nd - Florence to Eugene

July 31^st – Wed

I caught up on expenses on the computer which is always “interesting” and sometimes surprising.  After a late breakfast we went to do laundry.  While the clothes were washing, we went next door to a huge Ace Hardware store and found a few items that we needed.

We put everything away and then went to old town to browse all the shops before going back to the rig for dinner & TV. 

Aug 1^st – Thurs

We decided to stay another night and go back up the coast to check out sights that we can’t always stop at when we are towing the 5^th wheel.  Unfortunately, we woke to rain!  I switched to entering & printing recipes on the computer which ended up taking a lot of the morning.  Good thing our satellite dish gives Terry quite a bit to watch on TV.

We finally had another late breakfast and went for a drive.  The first detour to a park & beach was long not very scenic.  Florence is about sand dunes and not accessible beaches.  The clouds & fog were lifting so we continued on up 101.  Very soon, the fog was back so we turned around.

We stopped at Fred Meyer for some groceries and had to check out other departments as they had a lot of things on clearance and then another 50% off.  Too bad we don’t need much.  I made a snack with the last of our crab meat and then we settled in for HH & finally dinner.  We did make a short trip to find a dump station for tomorrow.  

Aug 2^nd – Fri – to Eugene

We packed up and went to dump our tanks before we hit the road (Hwy 126) east towards Eugene.  Terry was looking through a magazine when we were doing laundry and found a large golf store that does club fitting and figured we needed to check it out since new clubs were on our do-list. 

The skies cleared as we travelled the short 70 miles to our destination – Premier RV park.  The road was lovely with light traffic.  The park will be full tomorrow so rather than move to a different site tomorrow, we are staying in an overflow area with electric only which, at a much lower rate, is just fine.  We set up and headed to the golf store.

Terry couldn’t find the address in the GPS and ended up with just Hwy 99.  We drove sort of the wrong way before I figured it out what he had done and found the store (by spelling!) in the GPS. 

We were helped by a nice young man (aren’t all salespeople young now?!) and took several clubs and buckets of balls to the driving range right behind the store.  It is really nice to be able to try clubs on a range rather than hitting into a net.  Once we both decided on clubs, he checked the length & angle and found we were both OK without changes.  I also wanted a driver & 3 wood so that called for another round of hitting.

We were starving by the time we got out of there and as we were looking for somewhere to eat we saw Dick’s sporting goods.  We stopped to look for golf bags – no good – and then spotted a Super Cuts for a long overdue haircut for me.

I decided to make a burger at the rig rather than grabbing something out so we headed back.  It was after 4 by the time we ate so we accompanied the meal with a drink and then relaxed.  At 6 we made a second drink and went to the pool area of the park for their happy hour.  You bring a drink and they provide snacks.  The snacks turned out to be substantial enough for a meal.  Terry eventually had a hot dog and some chili but I was still full and only tried some great smoked salmon.  We chatted with 2 couples – Ed & Diane from Fallon NV and Ed & Marsha from Bozeman MT – and really enjoyed the sunshine.