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June - near La Grande, OR

Monday 09 June 2008 at 2:06 pm

I've managed the hardest thing about getting this blog back up. That's deleting the hundreds and hundreds of spam comments and other things that were left while I wasn't looking (which was too long, actually). It only took a bit of studying the blog program and I found a nice batch deleter. Whoopee.

I'm at Hilgard Junction State Park about 8 miles west of La Grande, Oregon. It's a nice little park and I'm the only host person onsite. And, there have been very few campers so far in the first week and a half. I'm storing up energy, ambition, and people patience. The next place I go is Cove Palisades park which is a boaters Mecca. I understand they need a lot of supervision and drink and party quite a bit. Maybe I better leave my whip with someone else.

La Grande is a nice town. It's big enough to have good shopping, a neat old downtown area, and it's right close by. I'm taking the motorhome in to a muffler shop there and having a couple of extra glass pack mufflers installed before the existing mufflers. They're too noisy and I was told that this would quiet the thing down quite a lot and not loose any power. It's a cheap fix for what I had done before with the exhaust. The Magnaflow mufflers and the three inch exhaust pipes I had put on back in Yakima, really did make it a lot more peppy, but now it sounds like a Harley Davidson. (That's right... I said it.) It just doesn't sound right considering it's pulling a nice quiet Goldwing - a real motorcycle. (Ya!)

Having the motorcycle along on its trailer is great. I still wish I could drive it on and off the trailer by myself, but so far I've found someone to help me load or unload everytime without having to wait long. The hardest part about using the trailer behind the motorhome is trying to back the darn thing. I can't see it when I do - and that big overhang behind the motorhome's rear wheels doesn't help at all. Actually though, I have discovered that if I put the bike's antennas back up, I can see them in my rearview mirror (back through the inside and out the rear window). I'm thinking about getting some kind of ribbon and clip that I can attach to the antennas so they're more visible.

I miss everybody back home (sort of). Cellphone reception is poor here also, so I leave the phone off most of the time. At least I don't get woke up durning the night with someone asking for somebody I don't know. I bought an outside antenna and a booster amplifier for the phone and the internet card. It works ok, and keeps me from watching the TV all the rest of the time I'm not outside driving my cart around trying to look important - or busy.

Ok! I have to make up some new picture galleries. I have lots to put up on the website. The connection is slow for uploading, but it seems reliable enough to just get it started and do something else.  Later.

Good ol' Brian


four comments

WELL ITS ABOUT TIME!!!! Not too sure what in the world took you so long to deal with the blog problem, but at least you finally got around tuit.. ( you know all about the round tuit.. thats a small coin I am told. ) When someone gives you one, you have to complete tasks. Or so I am told. I don’t have any round tuits so I reckon I am off the hook as far as completeing tasks.

As far as the sparse number of campers ( which we all assume is due to the incredible price of gasoline and diesel.) Your sister and I have a remedy and a sure fire method for you to draw campers from both near and far. Its really quite simple actually and I am surprised you have not thought of it yourself. You simply have to dude yourself up in your giant beaver outfit and spend lots of time cruising around in your golf cart. Before long, word will spread about the giant beaver in the golf cart and presto-whizz-o you will be full up with campers and yurt dwellers. May even call for a cruise down La Grande’s main street just to get the word out about the lunatic in the beaver suit, but I am sure the people will come out if for no other reason than to see if you crash your golf cart because you can’t see too well through the gap in your beaver buck teeth as you manuever the cart through the yurts.

Anyway I guess I have expanded more than enough on that particular topic. I could comment on your snide reference to the awesome sound of a Harley as opposed to the whisper of a Gold Thing er Wing motorcycle. But I have decided not to. As “We Harley riders” like to say, if we have to explain, than you wouldn’t understand. Of course your sister says if she has to understand then she does not want it explained.

Spring has finally sprung here and not a minute too soon either! Oops, wait a second, I think I heard yeserday that was the last day of Spring and we are now into Summer. I am thinking we need to adjust our calendars the way we have adjusted our clocks. — all that spring forward, fall back stuff. The weather needs to have a slight adjustment. Right now, it feels like we are in May instead of June. So I vote to roll the calendars back a month. All in favor?

I have said enough for this go around. Nice to see the old Blog back on line…. C ya..
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