We stayed at Crown Villa RV Resort in Bend for five days.
Crown Villa is a beautiful, well-managed and -maintained RV park. It appears to be one of those parks where some of the spaces are owned by private parties who have upgraded their spaces with outbuildings. Lots of large, spiffy RV’s here: Newmars, Monacos, Tiffins, and nicer Winnebagos. Lots of big fat squirrels, too.
The Crown Villa property includes hundreds of large (60’ tall) pine trees which are wonderful for shade but, at least in the case of our space, absolutely rule out catching a Dish TV broadcast signal no matter where I put my Tailgater sat dish.
Accordingly, our TV menu has been sparse, featuring only those shows that we’ve recorded in the past on our DVR. Luckily, when we were last in Yuma, I recorded a couple of dozen Law and Order episodes. So, we’ve been watching them, reading books, walking the dogs, and playing cards and board games. And enjoying each other.
In short, just what we bought the RV for.
Leaving Bend, and heading west toward Coos Bay, we fell victim to “road construction” and wildfire road closures that required us to take a 1-1/2 hour detour south, so that our couple-hour relocation took half a day. That sucked.
We are now settled in at Oceanside RV Resort in Charleston, Oregon (just south of Coos Bay). We’ve stayed here many times in the past; it’s right on the beach, the atmosphere is easy-going camping (rather than luxury “glamping”, like we experienced at Crown Villa), and there are lots of restaurants and things to do in the area. We know this town quite well.
We did not visit Oceanside RV Resort last year due to Covid-19 and, thus, we lost our “regular” site (68) and had to settle for site 20. It is not level, so I must re-level the RV a couple of times per day via the compressed air suspension system. Even still, the coach lists a bit to the passenger side. It’s annoying but livable.
(Today I booked a 30-day stay here beginning next year, July 6th. We will be situated on Space 63, which is the longest pull-through site here at Oceanside RV Resort. It looks to be pretty level, as well.)
The weather has been cool (high temp about 63), overcast, and breezy, quite a difference from what we left in Mesquite, Nevada. Our friend Lloyd reported that the temperatures have exceeded 115 degrees practically every day since we’ve been gone. A news report that I saw yesterday told of a high temp of 134 degrees in Death Valley this week. Ouch.
One thing we like about RV’ing in Oregon is the good seafood. We ate at Miller’s At The Cove on Monday night. The place has zero atmosphere (it’s essentially a sports bar); however, every item on the menu is delicious. I had Calimari strips, fish and chips, and grilled prawns. Yummy!
Our Mesquite neighbor Sandy Rose is staying here in a cabin for a week. We will do some biking in the area, we will play cards, enjoy some local restaurants, and explore some shops that the girls like. From here, Sandy will head north to live on a floating house near Portland for a couple of weeks.
Baby and BonBon are really enjoying the beach. They like to chase tennis balls and do figure-8’s while speeding around at 50 mph. BonBon can actually keep up with Baby, who is quite the athlete. The two of them have really adapted well to RV living, just like Booger and JayJay did. BonBon has assumed JayJay’s old position at the window, where she can monitor the activities of everyone at the RV park. Baby is in charge of food prep (she’s the sous chef; i.e. my assistant), lords over the toys, and cuddles with BonBon and Charlie while recharging her batteries.
Speaking of Charlie, this is our first RV vacation where my wife has not spent most of her time “working” on bookkeeping and tax matters. It’s really been good for us: we’ve spent a couple of weeks now enjoying togetherness and relaxing with minimal stressors.
Of course, I’ve had to busy myself with repairing hinges and latches and trying to work magic on our Dish satellite TV setup to keep it shipshape. It seems like I’m constantly on the phone with the Dish folks to straighten out one issue or the next. Technology sucks.
But, other than that, life is good.