Many times you have to rely on the goodness of others....especially when you are new to RVing. Yesterday we needed help with getting our TV set up. Our next door neighbor at the RV park came over and helped us. His payment...one of my bottles of Scout and Cellar wine.
Today, we left Bandon and headed north to Depoe Bay in anticipation of seeing more coastline, and hopefully some whales. We were able to pick up our e-bikes from South Coast Bicycles. Tom's dropper seat had to be totally rewired and the owner of the company did a half day's work for only $75 and parts. Amazing!
We were going to stop in Florence for lunch, pushed on to the next town, then the next town, and finally got to Newport. Finally I told Tom around 3:30 pm that if he didn't pull over soon I was going to start munching on his arm. We couldn't find a spot to park the RV in town so I told him to just pull over and we'd grab some cherries from the RV.
He pulled into a Walmart parking lot and I entered the RV to find the place a mess. Stuff had fallen out of the cabinets and the refrigerator. Eight days of traveling and nothing like this had happened. I just stood there for a while, not really wanting to deal with it. I was just looking for the cherries, dang it!
Apparently as items fell out of the refrigerator, they knocked the bottom panel loose from the refrigerator door. After collecting food from the floor, I went to close the door and the whole bottom panel popped out. Just as quickly the decorative stainless steel exterior panel slid to the floor. Tom came in and we tried getting the panel back up into the frame so we could close the refrigerator door. It wouldn't budge. Luckily we were in a large town and as Tom drove to the Newport Marine and RV Repair Shop, I rode in the RV holding open the refrigerator door with my backside, while using both hands to hold onto the eggs, water pitcher and other sundries in the refrigerator, It was truly an interesting ride, and I have to say I was a little motion sick by the time we got there. I also had a clearer understanding of what my dishes, toiletries and refrigerator goes through on a daily basis!
The guys told Tom they would take a look at it but if it required work, they had a four-week wait list!!! Lordy Ms. Mabel! UGH! Jeremiah, their repair guy, came out and started helping us. He started off telling us he would give us the tools but we would have to do it. After a lot of sweet talking, he was in their doing the work. We had NO CLUE how to get the refrigerator door off which was what was needed. Once that was accomplished we found the problem...the stainless steel panel was pinched in three sections along the side preventing it from sliding back into place. We offered to pay, but he wouldn't take any money. He did take a bottle of Scout and Cellar wine with our thanks.
So Tom said our RV lesson for the day was to make sure we bring extra wine on our trips!
We're happy to report that everything is back in place and the refrigerator door closes!
On the bright side, we are staying at the most fabulous RV park. It's called Sand and Sea RV Park and we are about 500 feet from the ocean. We can hear the roar of the waves and were able to watch the sun set on the horizon. It's beautiful. And we had an extremely wonderful seafood dinner along with a really stiff Gin and Tonic. George Bryce would have been proud of my mixture!
Today was also "bridge" day. We have seen so many great bridges along the way. And part of the Oregon coast has sand dunes! We read up on that and here's what it says: "The sand in the Oregon Dunes is from the Coast Mountain Range, which is sedimentary rock that was uplifted 12 million years ago. As rock was moved downstream by rivers, it tumbled and abraded itself into sand. The present shoreline stabilized 6,000 years ago. Tides, wave action and strong coastal winds moved sand up to 2.5 miles inland for thousands of years. This area of dune development rests on a gently sloping terrace of solid marine sandstone called the Coos Bay Dune Sheet. This low rock surface stretches 56 miles from Heceta Head to Cape Arago and contrasts with steep headlands found on most of the Oregon coastline, which prevent inland movement of sand."
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