Waiting to get the on the road.

While we are waiting for the house to close, (Grr, I really hate US Bank), we are trying to make the best of it.  They turned down the offer because it made too much money!  What's that about?  Now we get to start the process all over again!  Hopefully it won't be like the last one and take six months, when it was supposed to be two weeks.  In the mean time we are still living in our crappy little garage sale trailer, currently outside our old house on Terry Road, Rainier, Oregon.

So we are still looking at different models of trailers, and evaluating the best features of all of them.  We went to the RV Show at the Expo Center on Thursday, and discovered there is a whole new company called Grand Design. My research shows a whole new, and highly unusual, focus on quality and customer service.

They had a toy hauler model called Momentum that really impressed us with the level of detail that went into the design.  Some of the most minute details are carefully covered.  Even though we have been absolutely adamant about having the extra 1/2 bath in our unit, this one was tempting us.  Then the salesman from B Young RV gave us some great news.  They are coming out with a floorplan that will have a 1/2 bath.  So maybe our Higher Power has something better for us in mind after all.  The even better news on this brand is the price point.  We can get one of these brand new for the price that we have been looking at used ones in other brands.  The quality is definitely comparable.

So our other news is we got a smoking hot deal from Princess Cruiseline for a West Coast trip for 9/22-29. It leaves from Vancouver, BC  on 9/22.  We visit Victoria, BC 9/23, Seattle 9/24, Astoria 9/25, at sea 9/26, San Francisco 9/27, Santa Barbara 9/28, and disembark on 9/29.  A nice bonus for me is that we will be visiting with my friend Melinda in Long Beach, CA.  She will pick us up when we get off the boat on Sunday.  We will spend the night and most of Monday 9/30 with her, then fly home at 6:30 pm.

We are really excited to see what the coastline that we love and are so familiar with will look like from a different perspective.  This will be fun I'm sure.  I won't be able to update while in Canada, or on the ship (the data plan on ship is considered International and VERY expensive.  I will update as I find hotspots on our shore travels, or can use my own data plan.

It's all part of the adventure.  Let the fun begin.