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After driving 8.5 hours and only 23 miles from our destination, we had our first blow out in Turlock, CA on 99. Left rear inside tire. It truly sounded like a explosion. Lucky for us, we was only 50 yards from a exit so we was able to crawl off into a safe zone.

Unlucky for us, its a Sunday and we was 2 blocks from a Les Schwab and within 5 miles of 4 others and of course, all closed. After 45 mins of calling any truck stop/tire shop/any place that might be able to fix this that we could find on google, we decided to take the “back roads” to our planned destination. It only took 2.5 hours to go 30 miles (back roads added miles, but was for sure the smarter route and not the shorter route of 99)

The “great part” was we had a 3/4 of a gallon of Killz left that we planned on using in a few weeks as well as a pint of varnish, the impact hit the bottom of the cargo bay (water works) where I had them stored, the impact spit open the killz bottom and almost opened the varnish, it also destroyed our hummingbird feeder. Waiting on “rescue” I was able to clean the worst of the mess.

Looking back, I put all that stuff in the “water works” cargo bay for a reason. I was thinking spillage, not impacts, but the results are the same. We also have some minor damage to the exhaust pipe and area, not too sure how bad it really is, when the tire is fixed I will get a better look at it all.

It has been a long day. The camp host say’s there is a tire center “next door” that is open on Sunday’s, but apparently they just don’t answer the phone.
Anyway, The rest of our day will be relaxing and tomorrow, we will deal with it.

Turlock, CA – 04/07/2013 – Left rear inside tire exploded, the impact hit the cargo bay, destroying a 3/4 of a gallon Killz can. Lucky for us, the varnish did not open.

Turlock, CA – 04/07/2013 – Left rear inside tire exploded, the impact hit the cargo bay, destroying a 3/4 of a gallon Killz can. Lucky for us, the varnish did not open. The humming bird feeder was also destroyed. Lucky, I had a full tank of water to clean it up

Well, at least as much as we could. We got out of bed around 8:30am which is now considered “sleeping in” which I just find sad. But if you want to see a sunrise you have to sacrifice.

We drove to the Northern part of Medford, OR after we ate, we found a Albertson’s and stocked up on meat. We should have enough meat for a month plus now. This Albertson’s did not have a Starbuck’s which I just find terribly annoying.

We can back home and discussed our driving plans for tomorrow before I had enough and crawled back into bed for a 2 hour or so nap getting up around 3pm. We plan to get up at 5am tomorrow so I hooked the Kermit the Jeep to Admiral Ackbar so all I will have to do in the morning is plug in the umbilical cords.

I plan to be in bed around 9/10pm tonight, get up at 5am, dress and prepare for departure as Pauline will make breakfast, eat, and hit the road.

We are planning to fill up Ackbar South of Medford and then drive to Redding, CA for our first stop, then to South of Stockton for our 2nd stop and finally into our home for the next 3 days in Atwater, CA.

Just babbling as Pauline shower’s, I need to fill the water and get a drink…

• what the hell are we doing today? 2013-03-23 http://t.co/0KHdsyZQOX 00:49:07, 2013-03-30
• Jumping into the deep end. http://t.co/xuPq6BmG1i 17:07:56, 2013-04-01
• Just left our comfort zone of Daphna & Allen's in Everett, heading to our dealer for work on our braking unit of our tow. 05:27:04, 2013-04-02
• We are very lucky to have friends like Daphna & Allen, letting us live in the rv spot for almost 5 wks 05:28:59, 2013-04-02
• Letting us get setup, let us vent, and gave us time to practice our rv training wheels. =} 05:30:42, 2013-04-02
• Back in Oregon. http://t.co/P5hEF4k5Vg 18:15:30, 2013-04-02
• Furnace not working again….totally not happy about it, but I'm trying to remember the good thing, we are here to see our dealer…~P 22:18:10, 2013-04-02
• BUT totally not happy with the more time spent here….the even brake is still not working….and no fault of theirs…trying to remember that ~P 22:20:09, 2013-04-02
• The RV park next to the dealer is very nice, but we wanted to be making progress to AZ and not spending money so far north =( ~P 22:21:11, 2013-04-02
• Living in a box in the back alley of my best friends house http://t.co/h4oRkOYroC 19:33:24, 2013-04-03
• Ackbar's maintenance update http://t.co/d2qUynxql5 22:38:57, 2013-04-03
• The few days we've been down here in McMinnville, everyone has been so nice and friendly……. ~P 12:37:12, 2013-04-04
• Talking about it to hubby & it clicked, we are back in Oregon!!! I love how friendly Oregon is, not going to have it soon, we'll be in CA ~P 12:37:39, 2013-04-04
• We are finally on the road, I'm waiting for the bank account to load so I can take care of a few company bills. ~P 11:35:55, 2013-04-05
• Olde Stone Village – McMinnville, OR http://t.co/9wlWATD6Oa 16:45:12, 2013-04-05
• Valley of the Rogue State Park – Near Gold Hill, OR http://t.co/fRHh4oXghz 19:54:34, 2013-04-05

Valley of the Rogue State Park

I5 South exit 45B

Pauline here, Torn uploaded the pictures, the time consuming part as far as I’m concerned….grin  Now, I’m adding my little bit.

Found this place using a handy little app called AllSays Camp and RV….it is one of the most pricey apps I’ve brought, but so far, it has been worth it.  Do NOT use GPS device for this park, it will take you to town and exit 48.  Google maps had it dead on for my iphone app…..grin

The RV sites are $20 a night, they will be going up to $24 night in the next few weeks when the season hits.  Overall, for what you get, it’s very good value.

The park is also a rest stop.  So when you pull off the highway from the southbound, you go left for the rest stop and right for the camping.  They have both tent and rv camping available.

Right now, they have a few of the loops closed due to work and the park fills up pretty fast on the weekend due to that, even with it being off season.

At this time RV accessible loops that are open are D & E.  The RV ones all have electric and water and some have dump.  If no dump, there is a dump in the park. The dump ones aren’t clearly marked.  I’m not complaining, just noting

They have both pull throughs (up to 50ft rvs) and shorter back up sites. Each site has a fire ring and picnic table.  There are showers and restrooms in our loop.

They take reservations from 2 days to 9 months out.  Unfortunately, we couldn’t make any, because we didn’t know what was going on with our schedule due to warranty work.  We had to do first come first serve, got one of the last pull throughs.

The park is quiet overall, people wise, but is right off the I5, so you do hear the noise from that.  There were a lot of the big and some really fancy class A’s.  Almost felt like we were at a RV show….lol

Each loop has it own camp hosts. I didn’t meet the husband, (yet…may tomorrow) but the wife was very nice and helpful.

We would recommend this for base camp and chilling out for an overnight.

OldeStoneVillage.com

4155 NE Three Nile Lane, McMinnville, OR 97128

We stayed at Olde Stone Village from April 2, 3, 4, 2013 lot #240

Full disclosure, the only reason we stayed here was it was next door to our RV Dealer while we was getting some maintenance done. With that said, YES, we would stay here again and plan to the next time we are in Oregon when we get the window replaced.

It was about 25% full, it was quite, people were polite, and we heard lot’s of birds. The only con’s I can think of was, it was next to the airport, so you will hear helicopters fairly often.

The Wifi was wonderful! However, again, the park was only about 25% full.

It’s hard to rate a park, when you don’t have much to compare it to, but we give this park a 4 of 5.

We paid $31.50 a night with Good Sam, normal is $35 a night

Pauline here with my 2 cents =)

Torn covered the pricing. Concrete flat pads, used a pull through, full hook up, good wifi, picnic table, and it had all the bells and whistles we didn’t use…laundry, showers, rest rooms, club house, pool, mail service.  It was very well taken care of.  For those who have them, it is kid friendly.  Recommend it and in fact plan on staying there next year when we get some work done at RV Warehouse.

Go a visit the town and you’ll notice how friendly and helpful Oregonians are….one of the reasons why we are proud to claim it as our state.