Deschutes County Fair

July 27. WINCHESTER BAY, OR --Okay people..... here we come. A number of vendors have departed the Coos County Fair in Myrtle Point are are heading up to Redmond for the Deschutes County Fair.

Coos County ended last night and attendance was fair. We packed up our merchandise... wrap skirts, shoulder bags, shell necklaces and a whole lot more and left everything in our booth overnight. We loaded up our motor home with our things around 6:45AM and after saying good bye to fellow vendors, we left there around 10:15 and headed across to Coos Bay, where we gassed up ($4.23) and picked up a couple weeks groceries at Safeway. Don't you people have stores like Food Maxx or Costless? I believe that you do have COSTCO, but I don't need 12 boxes of corn flakes, 8 jars of coffee, 64 rolls of toilet paper. I'm exagerrating if you believe I am serious about COSTCO.

We do our grocery shopping at Food Maxx back home in Hayward and the prices have to be at least 30 percent less. We try to stay away from those higher priced wallet-busting chains like Luckys, Safeway, etc.

After picking up our groceries, we headed to a gas station and filled up and began our trek northward on Highway 101, which has been one of my favorite drives. Great scenery, very relaxing drive.

I had the address (sort of) of an RV dump site in Lakeside, but I didn't find it. We headed up to Winchester Bay again and dumped our holding tanks and then chose a spot to park for the night and relax the rest of the day away. Tomorrow morning, we'll head over to Highway 5 and Eugene and take Highway 126 to Redmond, an area where I have never been to.

Can't quite decided where to cross over at...Reedsport or Florence. I can save some time by crossing at Reedsport since part of the trip will then be taken on Highway 5. I might try to get to Redmond, where I can pick up my paperwork for the fair and maybe begin unloading and setting up our booth. Don't know what we'll do...still trying to recover from this morning's loading of the motor home which wasn't easy.

Later this week, the Winchester Bay Dunesfest http://www.dunefest.com/ will kick off. Looks like a really nice event for ATV's, etc. This is held yearly and the parking lots here are beginning to fill up with huge motor homes and gigantic trailers containing dune-ware. Check it out if you are on the coast. However, if you are out on Highway 5 near Eugene, come on over to the Dechutes County Fair in Redmond and check us out...... DandL CREATIONS