This was the best Chinese food we have had on the road in three years. Next we went into Florence and treated Rick to lunch at Chen’s Family Dish. ![]() Still well worth the visit even if we didn’t have friends there The only bummer was you can’t go up to the top of the stairs. ![]() This are of the coast of Oregon is chock full of Day Use areas and campgrounds and it is all designed to allow the public easy access. First stop was Strawberry Hill a beautiful little day use area with lots of tide pools and seals. We knew we wanted to see Jim’s tour later, but Rick (who was off) also wanted to show us the area. Tuesday morning, Lee, Rick and I headed out to explore because Jim and Diana were volunteering at the lighthouse that day. Hopefully we can return the favor in the near future, although it will be pretty hard to top! It was a great way in which to try out our tent, and their generosity was amazing. We even had an electric cord we could use to plug in a space heater at night and the site was free with them picking up the $7 per night cost of our parking pass. They fed us dinner every night and breakfast in the morning, plus Rick let me use his shower. The fact that they cared enough about us to go to that much trouble meant the world to me, especially since it has been a rough couple of weeks, and I will say again how blessed we are to be part of the RV-Dreams family. I really had to think about what to say and where to sign it. We had an absolutely fantastic weekend with our friends and since I took over 1,000 pictures, I am going to largely let some of them tell the story. The good news is the tent worked great with plenty of space for us. It certainly was much easier than the tent we used when the kids were small but it did require some reading of the directions. They had a fire going and gave us plenty of time to figure it out so eventually we did. Our experience with tents is very limited so we bought an “easy up” version, but “easy” is a relative term, so it did take awhile. After seeing everyone and exchanging hugs we started to set up the tent. ![]() It was a 3-1/2 hour drive to their location near Florence, Oregon, but since we packed up the night before, we made it in plenty of time before dark. At the end of our work day Monday afternoon we headed for the coast. Not only would be get to hang out with them, but we would have a place to take our trial run with the new tent, and if things went horribly wrong, at least we would be with friends. We immediately knew we wanted to spend the weekend with them but weren’t quite sure how to work that out, and after considering moving our rig, or staying with Rick in his Class A, or taking our tent, we decided to take the tent. This was pretty amazing, since they had never met each other, and it was a sheer coincidence that they would be at the same place at the same time. A few weeks ago I realized that three of our RV-Dreamers friends were both volunteering at Heceta Head Lighthouse at the same time, and were both staying at the Carl G.
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