Day 6, 7 - Idaho to Oregon; Maybe on to Washington?

Today is the day we were supposed to be reaching our final destination in Olympia, Washington. That remains to be seen. 

After six days of our Jeep Cherokee being towed behind Thor, we were finally forced to unhook it. All the previous campsites were pull-through so that was nice that we could leave the Jeep attached. But our camp spot in Boardman, Oregon was a back-in site. No problem, we’ll unhook, but that’s when we discovered the Jeep had a dead battery. 

Fellow RV’ers are of the friendly sort so naturally a guy offers to help jump our battery. But it won’t charge enough so we have to call roadside assistance. The battery still won’t stay charged so Chris drives the Jeep to a NAPA Auto-parts store to buy a new battery. But NAPA says the battery is fine. Another call to roadside assistance and the Jeep gets towed to a Dodge dealer 30 minutes away. So the Jeep spent the night at the repair shop and we are waiting to hear today what the verdict is.

Meanwhile, we discovered our twin yesterday. We had seen another RV of our same model, Thor Tuscany, at the RV park in Utah. It’s always exciting to see another exact model. But the crazy thing is that same RV was also at the next RV park in Idaho. And then it pulled in right next to us at the RV Park in Oregon!

Three same parks in a row. So of course we interrogated each other: are you following us? They were a couple from Arizona who had the same idea as us to hightail it out of the heat and then drive shorter days as they approached their destination near Portland, Oregon. They had purchased their Thor the same year as us in 2016 but while they bought theirs brand new, ours was a used 2014 model. They said they regretted buying new as there were so many problems with it. The advice is always to buy a used one so the kinks can all get worked out. We enjoyed comparing notes on repair issues and RV life.

While we await word on when the Jeep will be ready, we are at least in a lovely campground. The Boardman Marina Park and RV Campground is located on the Columbia River. We can see Washington across the river. We have a large grassy space. Jack is enjoying the view:

I’ll keep you “posted” on our status.