I can't say that Coos Bay has been my favorite city. The Mill Casino was a nice enough RV Park. We ate several times at The Mill. The Plankhouse had a great menu, an Early Bird Special, but even better a more reasonable still Senior's Menu. The view was also great from the restaurant. The casino has a smoke free slot machine room, but even with that and penny slots, Bob and I weren't tempted.
The whole week we were here it rained daily. The gray skies were beginning to get to me. I decided the sun had moved permanently to Tucson. The flowers and greenery are beautiful and I know rain is necessary for all this beauty but it makes me want to crawl in bed and pull up the covers.
On Tuesday, May 31st, Bob had made arrangements to get two new front tires. The motorhome had been shaking when you drove over 50 mph, and that's not good. Tires of course had to be ordered but Tuesday was the delivery day. Les Swabb, in every city in Oregon, ordered the tires and put them on in less then an hour. Great start. I hate any repairs that have to be done to the motorhome. Next it had to be aligned and Les doesn't do motorhomes, so we had to go to a truck place. When your home is in the shop, you can't really stay in it, and of course it was raining. We spent the day grocery shopping, eating lunch, checking out the lumber mill and the walkway along the river. No pictures because of course it was raining.
When we got back to the motorhome, the news no motorhomer wants to hear, it would take another day. Evidently something under the back of the motorhome was loose. It would need welding and the owner did that and he was not in till tomorrow. Now I thought ok, we'll go to a nice motel, The Red Lion was down the street and I knew all Red Lions like La Quintas welcomed dogs. However, Bob had other ideas. He thought we should spend the night in the motorhome at the shop. He thought it was sooo nice that they hooked us up with water and electricity and since we were spending an inordinate amount of money at this shop. It only made sense to spend the night. I went to bed early, in the motorhome, mad. (As my granddaughter would say, "I am mad!")
The night actually was ok and no one woke us up at 6:00 am to work on the motorhome, which was one of my main fears. We left for breakfast about 9:00 am and Pralines had a hair appointment at 1:00 at Happy Tails. (Pralines wants you to know that he thought Happy Tails did a great job.) By about 4:00 pm, we were on the road again, returning to our RV Park at The Mill. We had a great dinner at the Plankhouse. I think Bob was trying to make up for not going to the motel. What ever the reason, dinner was great and we had a last evening in Coos Bay. Tomorrow we head to Newport, Oregon. I am in hopes the sun might be there.
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