Woke up this morning to two surprises... one was a half inch of fresh snow and the other was the above stuck to the door. Sorry it`s not readable: I`ll translate. It says we was BAD for parking overnight at the mall. On the bright side, There`s no actual fine or anything and the Security Cop was pretty quiet about putting the notice on the window (he could have rousted us at 3:53 AM and told us to leave), so seeing as we`re not planning on being back this way for a while we`ll just treat this as a souvenir and a scrap booking opportunity.
After a nice IHOP breakfast, we were on our way as soon as it was light (no need for clearanceétail lights in the daytime!).
Once we got out of Spokane we were back to bare ground again, so Gabby was again pretty happy about being able to walk on grass instead of snow. Here are some pics of the scenery from Spokane down to Portland. If you ever get the chance to travel along the Columbia River, you should. It`s great! (Through-the-window pics don`t really do justice).
We skirted around Portland, and arrived at the Woodburn Super Wal*Mart about 4PM. It`s now about 8:45, and I`m pretty much all caught up on the emails and the blog thanks to my new buddy athomeBB29 who lent me his wifi signal. It`s been raining pretty much since 3:00 or so, which at this point is a pretty good thing since maybe it`ll wash some of the gravel off the vehicles, and the outside temp right now is 41F. Not balmy, but a real break from a couple days ago.
Tomorrow we`ll hunt down a spot to take on water and de-winterize (probably the Pilot truck stop just down the road) and then we can kick into holiday mode for real.
BTW, as I suspected and hoped, the tail & clearance light circuit seems to be fine now. Some of the snow and slush must have gotten into the wiring at the back end somehow and shorted it out. Something to investigate, but not today.
2 comments:
Ah, Spokane Valley Mall. Such fond memories, although I was not privy to as wonderful a souvenir as you guys received! We just had two mall cops eyeing us as we jay-walked ...
Mel
We didn't have any of the front curtains pulled, Mel, so Wendy was a little freaked about the security guy looking in the windows. I still say he was pretty nice for not waking us, though. It's a tough economy, everybody needs a job.
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