RVs and Oregon

After spending time taking care of family, we finally hit the road again in late February. We're headed north for another repair to the on-going leak issue in the bedroom slide. Winter is the worst. We have to pull in the slide every time it rains...a hardship for Tom with our "RV" queen bed, which is significantly shorter than a regular queen. 

If you review our blog, you'll see we've already tried two repairs to this slide. This time, we've got an appointment at the Winnebago repair facility in Junction City, OR. Hope the manufacturer can actually fix the problem.   

On the way up, we stop at Valley of the Rogue State Park just north of Medford, OR. Although Tom and Tank have stayed here before, but I haven't. The Rogue River Greenway, an eventual 30 mile multi-use trail that will run from Grant's Pass to Gold Hill, passes through the park. It would have made for a great bike ride. Unfortunately, we're only here for one night, so the ride will have to wait. One nice thing for an overnight stay is to have a pull-through site so we don't need to unhook the toad. 

Tank sampling the Rogue River

The next day we make it to Junction City. Winnebago has overnight parking for customers who are having repairs done. It's a small parking lot with hook-ups. Not very attractive, so no pictures to share. 

In the morning, the repair person comes and picks up your rig at which point, you're homeless. We could only stand spending so much time in the lounge of the Winnebago facility. We ventured out and found the grand opening of a new Starbucks. Not crowded, comfy chairs, wifi, outlet to recharge our phones and laptops...and on top of that, they wanted to go outside and meet Tank! 

The next day, we stopped in at the Guaranty RV cafe for lunch. What the heck, while we're here, let's take a look at some RVs, the dealership is right across the parking lot... We ended up looking at some pre-owned Tiffins and Newmars and met their Newmar expert. Ended up coming back the next day to test drive a Newmar with its Comfort Drive feature. Learned alot about what we might want in a new coach. The salesman even hooked us up with a free night in their RV park (alot nicer than the Winnebago parking lot)! Almost sorry that they didn't have an RV that fit our needs. 

Somehow this RV shopping got Wendy wanting to see the County Coaches at Premier RV down the road. Country Coach went out of business along around 2009, but Premier specializes in repair and resale of these used very high end coaches. Wow! I was ready to forget size considerations (these coaches run 40+ feet) and buy one! 

An arm and a leg later, (but hopefully with a repaired RV), we're heading back home. The last stop in Oregon is the Seven Feathers RV Resort in Canyonville. It is a beautiful RV park that is part of the Seven Feathers Casino. We took the shuttle bus across the freeway to the casino for a belated anniversary dinner at the K-Bar Steak House.

  

At the Guaranty dealership, our salesman mentioned said that a friend told him Seven Feathers was only $9 a night. Then on the way to the Seven Feathers, we saw a billboard that said something about $9 but no explanation. When we checked in, I asked about the billboard. I was told that if you have a players club card and you asked (they aren't allowed to tell you about it otherwise), you could stay for $9 a night. You better believe I have a club card now!!!