Chapter Three Finally Camping
The next morning Marsha and Puppy Girl checked out ATV prices at the log cabin store next to the campground. For only $45 an hour she and Vince could chase each other around in dune buggies.
She also figured out that if she flushed the toilet to add the sewer sweetener, the smell hissed out, and the flap didn’t close properly. If she pressed the foot pedal up after emptying the tank the little lid closed tighter. However, the toilet emitted an enduring, foul-smelling burp as though it didn’t know what large quantities of breath freshener had just been poured down its gullet.
“I rented ATVs with Jason once,” Vince called out to her as she emerged from the back. Mine broke down. It seems like I had to do a lot of walking. We ended up with dust everywhere. It’s really fun, though. Jason wanted to go every weekend. ATVs can be dangerous, though. You have to be really careful where you go.”
Marsha knew they were not going to rent ATVs and chase each other around the dunes.
Coos Bay Farmers Market 
Marsha & Kalev
While they parked at The Dunes KOA, it was an easy drive to go north 30 miles to sight see in Florence, or 20 miles south to Coos Bay. The decided that their favorite was Florence.
The two days in Reedsport flew by just taking care of business. Of course, to be legal and safe in Oregon, the truck needed a new hitch and mirrors. Vince had already spent about $3,000 on the truck before he left home making sure that belts and hoses were current, and the brakes were in good repair. “Even if we have to buy a new motor, it’s only about $5,000,” he assured her. Vince arrived at Porter’s in Coos Bay, Oregon before 8:00 a.m. and they fixed the truck right up. It only cost another $500, he told her two days later.
They even had some time to check out the Myrtlewood Factory next door to the Oregon Dunes KOA.
Outfitted properly Vince roared away from their first campground in the ATV country of the Oregon Dunes, hauling his new trailer confidently through the twisty turns of the California Redwood Highway 101.
The odometer turned 155,555 miles on their navy blue GMC ½ ton Sierra as Vince snapped a picture on his iPhone. Marsha immediately texted the picture to their friends, with the caption, “and still going strong.”
That should have foreshadowed interesting things to come.
Have you ever bragged when you shouldn’t have? Ooops…. What did you say?
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15 responses to “Accidental Vacation Chapter Three”
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So readers, is this spam, because it’s electric cigarettes, and I’ve never even smoked a real cigarette, let alone an electric one… Or is this a real compliment. I’ll let you readers decide, if you wish. 🙂 Thank you EC.
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Love the photos in the gallery, looks like a really interesting place, can talk long, gotta get to the next bit.
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🙂
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Most certainly have bragged, then been subjected to a most severe sorry condition when something went wrong or the beloved thing was lost! I rarely do this anymore. I think things can hear lack of humility and then break or disappear!
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I do like that sign Marsha… wife in car… hahaha
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Hehe. It was just lucky!
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Of course if Manny was with you he’d be up that pipe like a ferret. He likes pipes 😀
Oooh. Hi drama. Must read the next post. Ralph xox 😀
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Yikes, I’m glad he’s not here! He’d be wanting another bath, and …. I’m not sure I’d want to give him one. He’s safer touring Europe with Carol. 🙂 🙂
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He and Justin Beaver bought more chocolate today.
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Vince should start his own blog called “The Eternal Optimist”. I don’t like the sound of that toilet. Are you sure something nasty isn’t living down there. It could just be waiting for the right moment to jump out at you.
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I think that would make another story for another day. He thinks my post is way too negative, but here’s my struggle. How can you have a good story without obstacles, and a bit of a villain? I promised him, that it will get better. (The story – the vacation – well it is a vacation!) Even if it was an accident. I don’t know, do you think it is too negative? Should I change it?
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No I don’t think you should change any of it, that’s what makes it fun.
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That toilet does sound scary…
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Puppy Girl wouldn’t go NEAR it! She moves if she even hears noise coming out of us!!! A toilet, that’s been just too scary! Then the toast almost popped out of the toaster when she was up on the couch with her nose close to the toaster. That made her move!!! FAST!!
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