In my previous Day 6 post, I mentioned I would follow up on two things.

The first was the Coupler Vault and the difficulty of installing it.  The Sutton RV tech, Tom, contacted the vendor to see what was wrong.  The thing that was wrong was with US!  The vendor mentioned we should look at the box.  On the front of the box it shows the vault itself drooped down a bit on the hitch.  Well that was representative of how it should be.  Here is a pic of it on the trailer:

The second was the couple that sells their artistic works.  I mistakenly said they were ‘Moondoggie’ or some such.  Here is the correct information:

Brian and Corrine Vegter
Baker City, OR
DustyDogStudio.com
DogsByBri.com

Sorry about the delay getting this information back to you…

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROXIE!  51 years old today!

We got up and rolling a bit earlier today because we wanted to hear Tom Schabarum talk about his books and read from one of them.  He talked about writing, what he goes through, a bit about what he has gone through that influences his writing.  He read a few poems with a travel theme that he has written and is compiling.  He gave us a bit of a back story about his novel Airstreaming.  Pretty appropriate to talk about a story that has an Airstream in it to a group of Airstreamers.  It was very insightful.  I have followed Tom’s blog and his Twitter for a while so it was nice to meet him in person.  He also offered his books for sale which was great because I have been meaning to get Airstreaming for a while now.  Here’s Tom:

Up next was a seminar on Solar power.  A company from Medford (can’t remember the name now) was there showing their Zamp Solar products.  They were talking about a portable unit that you can deploy when and where you like.  I do want to get solar but I think I will start with them mounted on the roof first.  I feel that is the best, for now.  Here is the solar talk:

Due to a schedule misread on my part we missed another seminar that I wanted to see.  But we got some downtime at the trailer.  During this time we had the windows open and  our Fantastic Fan going.  I found this on our fan:

What is this?  It is a fly.  However he is stuck to the fan because of the suction of the fan.  However his back is up against the screen.  His legs are dangling free and they were moving.  Very funny.  I turned off the fan and herded it outside.

Since it was Roxie’s birthday we had to take her out to eat.  Canyonville has a real dearth of good restaurants.  We found out that the ones at the Casino are NOT good.  We went to El Paraiso.  Roxie loves Mexican food so this was perfect.  The food was very good.

Back at the ranch (RV park) we walked around for ‘roving happy hour’.  We don’t drink any libations so we just roved and talked.  Roxie talked to one of the local Airstream salesman and let him know what she really felt about the issues with our trailer.  She was a bit wound up afterward.  The next thing was tribal drumming performed by members of the local tribe.  I enjoyed it, just sitting and listening.  Here is a shot:

The sun was going down and getting cool so we took off a bit before they were done.  We need to dress a bit warmer, odd to think about in August.

Tomorrow is another day.  Two to go!