It's Not Always Fun and Games

Oh no, the slide won't come in all the way, now what.  We were on our way to Long Beach, Washington to visit friends when this happened.  We had to drive to an rv repair shop, only 7 miles away in Aberdeen, Washington, to have him show me how to do a 'manual override' of the electronic controls, which brought the slide in.  No he doesn't work on slides but Tillamook RV Repairs down in Oregon does.  

So off to Tillamook, Oregon we go for a tuesday morning appointment to take a look and see what we need to do. Yes we can stay in their back lot , which we did for two nights.  Bad news, it's the motor which is still working but a tiny part is broken and guess what, that company isn't around any more and in fact has been bought and sold twice since 2002. 

But Morgan at Tillamook RV found a guy in Ohio who repairs these things so off to UPS I go to ship the things to Ohio for repairs.  Repairs will take around 6 weeks so until then the slide remains in.  Bummer.

Now for some fun.

The airport in Tillamook was a busy place during World War II.  Please go here to read about it and to see more pictures.

1944 construction begins on the hangers, wooden construction with massive 

concrete columns to hold up the door assembly. 

One of the two hangers today.

These hangers were where the blimps lived.  These blimps were used to

patrol the coast during WWII.

See those concrete columns 

Sorry this picture isn't the best

See those 4 columns over there?  They're all that's left of the other blimp hanger

that burned to the ground in the 1990's.  That area is now used by a lumber company.

We stayed in the Tillamook area for a week.  We found this little city park, in the town of Bay City, that had 4 rv sites with full hook-ups and we were lucky enough to snag one.  So on the following monday we headed north back up to Long Beach, Washington to visit and stay with friends. 

You may have noticed the new header picture.  This is where we are now at my friends home.  As you can see they have lots of room for friends to drop in and to stay awhile.

Long Beach is about 20 miles north of Astoria Oregon and the next posts will be about that area.  

Be back soon.

Evie and Joy