Day 5
Woke up to the falling of water from the tree above us, the
time being closer to eight than anything. The plan is to make it to Spokane today,
that shouldn’t be a problem.
Before we left we had to do a couple of items. We had to
feed the cats, we’ve decided to switch up what they eat from just dry food to a
mixture of dry and canned with the hopes that it will help with one of our
cat’s digestive problems.
We also had to put some flea killing stuff on all of our
pets. They’ve had them since we left the house and we’ve been forgetting to
give them the stuff. With luck the medication should stop our dogs from biting
and scratching themselves so much.
We set off at nine, again.
We stopped around 10:30 for a bit of shopping. We got some
more pet stuff, plus a bit more human food. We also got some clothes, which
included swimming trunks for me and dad as we had forgotten ours at home.
After shopping we went a little ways and stopped at a Subway
for lunch. We were hoping since we were in Oregon that they would have gluten free
bread, like they said all Subways in Oregon did. But just our luck, they did
not. So mom was unable to get anything from Subway, but the rest of the family
got something for lunch.
We got back into the RV around 11:30, and started to eat our
Lunch. We set off around ten minutes later.
We stopped for a bathroom break a while later, but were soon
on the road again.
We pulled into Idaho, the state we are staying in.
At around four we stopped to fill up, had a little
confrontation with another driver when we had problems getting out. But that
was quick and only verbal.
We pulled right across the street to our stop. The place we
will be spending the next several days at. It is in a town called Post Falls,
it is near the border of Idaho and Washington. Before we could plug in we had
to quickly take the van off the trailer and then we had to back into the spot
we had been assigned.
We had several problems hooking up. For one, our power cable
was too short, and even with our extension it was still too short, but not by
much. It was just short enough for one of the adapters we had, so we hooked
into a plug in that was meant for a bit higher amperage.
The second problem, and the main one, was our sewer hose.
Even with all three of our hoses we still had a bit over twenty feet to go. Dad
had to go up to the front and buy another long hose. And once he got the hose
he had to fight to get some connectors onto it, but then broke the connector.
So dad had to go back up to the front and buy a different
form of a connector. This one basically connected the two hoses without any
practical way to unhook them again. It took a little bit but eventually dad was
able to get the piece in and then finish hooking up the sewer. And with that we
became fully hooked up.
We had a few other things to move about but the rest of the
set up was uneventful.
About two hours after we pulled in, we all jumped into the van
and went off for a drive. First scouted a couple of places, finding a waterfall
like area, spent a few minutes checking it out. Once done with that we went
looking for food, sadly we failed. We could not find any local food place open
at the time, which was nearing nine.
We had to drive for a while
before we finally decided to just go to a Denny’s, and had a good dinner there.
After that we went straight
back to the RV and went about our different business.
Day five typed up June 26,
2012, all past vacation entries this year edited same day.
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