On our first morning of waking up in our "new-to-us" Airstream, we were greeted by rain. The soft pitter-patter was a welcome sound until we realized that we'd have to venture out in it to take our pups to go potty. The parking lot was now a muddy, gravely mess that stuck to our shoes as well as the dogs' paws. We all came back soaked from our walk and brought the outside in with us. Shortly after cleaning up the dirty mess, Chelsey surprised us by giving us room-service coffees delivery. What a doll! We had not counted on having a cup of brew this morning since we did not have electricity to run our coffee pot, and the truck and trailer are too big to fit in a drive-through.
Our destination for today is Belknap on the McKienze River, about an hour east of Eugene. What a beautiful drive, both on Hwy 38 as well as Hwy 126. Along the way we stopped at a Walmart to pick up several "dog" towels as the forecast for today and Thursday is more rain! As it turned out, we ended up at a Belknap overflow site about two miles away from the lodge. It is very quiet here but there are no amenities. :( We have to drive the two miles to enjoy the hot-springs, lodge, wifi, store, lawn areas, etc. Non or us are happy about our location but they have a no-refund cancelation policy within two weeks of the arrival date. We feel we were misinformed and they had misrepresented the accommodations where we ended up as they had said they were within walking distance. It is definitely not convenient!
Today was our first time to fully set up Senang, our given name for out Airstream. It took a solid hour if not a bit more. Afterwards we went to the Lodge at Belknap to enjoy the natural hot springs, followed by returning to our site and having a chili dinner at our friends' Twinkie, their given name for their Airstream. Now we are sitting in our cozy accommodation with our pups by our site. It doesn't get much better than this!
Sept 17-18
We have been concerned about out trailer hitch being very low to the ground. It seems that the slightest bump in the road will cause us to scrape. Not good! Our friends agreed with us and recommended that we have it checked once we get to Bend, our next destination. Since that is to be on a Saturday, we decided to be pro-active and make an appointment. It is a good thing that we did as they could only see us on Friday. We left our site at Belknap after a beautiful hike up to the Proxy Falls. The sun was shining and the vegetation was lush green. Other than wanting to get some more hikes in around the McKenzie River, we left Belknap without too much regret.
Our first stop was coffee at the Sisters Coffee Company followed by the trailer hitch dealer. We quickly found out that the system we have is just too big for our truck, causing the hitch to scrape. The only solution is to get a new one. All we see is $ signs, but it is a matter of safety so we made an appointment to have a new one installed the next day, and YES, they were able to schedule us in.
We had a pizza dinner with our friends, then we bundled up for the cold night ahead, once again while boon-docking as our campsite is not available until the next day.
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