RAINY, WINDY Day!

The NOAA radio app on my iPhone has been broadcasting ALERTS all day for the SW Oregon and the Canyonville area. There has been both a Flood Alert due to heavy rains and a Wind Alert. The Wind Alert was cancelled late this afternoon, but not until we had some strong wind gusts come through that shook Auntie Violet quite vigorously.

It has been raining steadily since early afternoon. There is a little creek along the edge of the campground that looks pretty innocuous, but we'll keep an eye on it. You look down a good ten feet into the creek, so I think it's going to take a lot of rain to fill it...

This is an incredibly beautiful park. The RV sites are spacious and nicely landscaped --

These lovely birch trees were just little saplings when we first stopped here --

This is the Pool House located just across the road and two sites down from Auntie Violet --
 

Besides the restrooms and a workout room, the building is mostly taken up by the pool --

And best of all, the hot tub!

It is so nice to sit in the hot tub and look out the large windows. We could watch the wind gusts come over the top of the hill this morning and follow the bending trees down the hill into the canyon. One of the gusts actually blew the double doors open on one side of the Pool House and then blew across and blew open the doors on the other side!

On to Seven Feathers

We got a fairly decent start this morning in spite of the steady rain. We decided not to drain the tanks as they were only half full, but we did stop to take on diesel as we had decided last night not to try it in the dark.

We stopped at the Pilot near Brooks, Oregon which had quite a bunch of trucks lined up to fuel. I tried to use my RV Plus Charge Card at the pump, but it didn't seem to work. As I started to walk into the store, the young truck driver in the station next to us told me that the computer in the store was down and none of the pumps were working. He said he had been waiting over 45 minutes and that they kept telling him "just a few more minutes," so he was going to leave and drive on down the road. We had procrastinated about getting diesel and were pretty low and really weren't comfortable going much further...

I walked on into the store and just as I walked in, the clerk told me everything was working. So we filled up with 91.53 gallons of diesel at $4.079 per gallon. OUCH! Would it be a bit less painful if we filled more often?

It insisted on raining fairly hard the entire trip as we proceeded south on Interstate 5 --

We kept getting passed by vehicles with Oregon Duck flags flying --

This pickup had four flags -- and a barbecue in the back. The closer we got to Eugene and Oregon State University, the more of the flags we saw. There were cars with duck feet all over them as well as ones plastered with "O"s. We finally realized that the OSU - Stanford football games was this evening (as I write this, it's tied 14-14).

It was raining awfully hard, so I never did get a good picture of all of the thousands of sheep we saw in the pastures along the way. This is definitely sheep country.

We made good time and pulled into Seven Feathers RV Resort near Canyonville, Oregon a little after three PM. It was kind of fun to have the guide who took us to our site recognize us from our previous trips here. She even remembered that we had not been here last year! (She said she recognized my smile?)