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Singing4MyJesus · RV-Dreams Community Member

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Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum.You will find us a friendly bunch and some even know something.:).We love your state and are spending our second summer in McMinnville.

Waggin Tails · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum. You have already discovered it is full of experiential knowledge. We are looking forward to visiting Oregon when we travel to the Northwest. We will just look you up then.

Singing4MyJesus · RV-Dreams Community Member

WagginTails,

Thank you for the welcome. I can see this is an awesome place!

Blessings...

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Singing4MyJesus · RV-Dreams Community Member

Racerguy,

So if this isn't your state, where do you hail from?? Thank you for the nice welcome!

Blessings...

-- Edited by Singing4MyJesus on Sunday 24th of July 2011 10:13:57 AM

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

Asking what state someone is from is a funny question for a full-timer. Some of us have lived in one state all of our lives before full-timing, others have moved around. But as full-timers most of us move around. We have camped in 49 states and 6 Canadian provinces. I know Oregon is like Washington state, where we last had a house, most people came from somewhere else and a minority you meet were born in the state.

Edit: I realized my comment might come across as negative and I am sorry since that is not the intention. We became full-timers because we loved traveling and ended up finding the house an albatross. Welcome to the dream.

-- Edited by bjoyce on Sunday 24th of July 2011 12:14:52 PM

karen948 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum, we are originally Oregonians and bought property in La Pine, OR after we sold our home. My dream is to go full-time, the DH couldn't live with not owning a piece of land somewhere so buying property in our happy place was our compromise.

We currently are static full timers until DH retires in 2-3 years.

Good luck to you,

Karen

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Linda and I both grew up and worked until retirement in Colorado.We are not your average full timers as we tend to stay put longer in area's we like and only visit other states when we are on the way to one of those spots.We just love the summer weather here and the small town atmosphere in this area fits us to a tee.Besides that it's not far for Linda to get her Ocean fix once in a while and spend time with her oldest Daughter who moved here several years ago.I get to enjoy the hot rod culture that is abundant in Mac and the surrounding area.

gypsymaus · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum. You will get a lot of good information here and make some life long friendships as well. smile

injunear · RV-Dreams Family Member

Let' see, from where do we hail.

Born and lived in KY. Have lived in Ohio and S.Carolina. Own a home in TN and now live in Indiana.

We travel and stay in TX and AZ for weeks at a time.

So where do we hail from ???

USA !!!

Injunear Wayne

Penny and Paul · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome from a pair of Illinois Jesus freaks

Bill Adams · RV-Dreams Family Member

Funny thing about McMinnville.....
When Janet and I took our first RV trip around this great Country, one of the stops we planned while we were on the West Coast was a visit to the Spruce Goose in Long Beach, CA. This was in 1999. Go ahead, I will let a few of you get over the laughing before I continue with this story...........
We arrived in Long Beach to visit the historic aircraft as well as the Queen Mary with is docked at same basic location. We saw the QM and we saw the gigantic dome under which the Spruce Goose is stored. Strangely enough, we saw a bunch of signs pointing us toward the QM but nothing about the Goose. OK, hopefully, you have gotten over you laughter as most of you likely know that the Spruce Goose was moved from Long Beach to McMinnville, OR many years prior to our arrival in CA. I guess this was just not a part of history that I kept up with so when we continued our travels up N we added a visit to McMinnville, OR to our travel plans so we could get a look at this monster. Those historians are now likely just chuckling at my ignorance, but it appears that despite the SG being moved years earlier, the planned museum and reassembly took many years and when we arrived in McMinnville, we still could not see the Goose. If only the kind of internet access available today had been available then I would have saved myself a lot of frustration. The good news is that we returned to McMinnville several years later and while the aircraft was still not completely assembled, it was mostly assembled and available for viewing and touring. The museum is an excellent facility and well worth a visit if you have any interest in aviation history.

Racerguy · RV-Dreams Family Member

Bill, You probably still got to see more of the inside of The Spruce Goose than I did last year.Now the catwalk goes around the outside some and into a small section of the underbelly.If you want to see the ****pit it cost's an EXTRA $25.00 to get a "photo" taken in it.One of the volunteers told me last year that he was 99% sure they were getting one of the space shuttle's and even had space set aside for it but got aced out and only got some of the support items.It's a pricey museum but in my mind well worth the money and I'm a car guy not an aviator.Good point about how we now can use the internet to save us a lot of wasted time.

bonnie and clyde · RV-Dreams Family Member

Welcome to the forum,

We live on the East Coast with the West coast on my bucket list.

Singing4MyJesus · RV-Dreams Community Member

Thank you everyone for the wonderful welcome.

My husband just today went to a retirement seminar for the State of Oregon. Our goal is to be out of debt in two years which are achieving. We rent and have done so since 1988 due to going through a really tough corporate bankruptcy in 1987 which took 13 years to get off our backs. We basically moved from Alaska (I lived there from 1960-88 and my DH from 1967-88) and started over in Oregon. It was definitely a tough road. In the process, we lost three homes...though we are so much wiser for it. So...we are back on our feet with great jobs which we absolutely love (we work at the same place). These jobs will be hard to leave but that won't come for another 5-7 years. So we are plotting the course to be ready and if we can be, even sooner.

Anyway, I wanted to thank everyone for making me feel so welcome.