Williams, Ca, to somewhere Near Monmouth, Or

Covered about 480 miles today. Originally I had planned to get to Salem, Or, and find a place to park for the night. However, Gary and Colleen, from DayBreak, offered for me to park at their farm in the country near Monmouth. Gary and Colleen are also the ones that coordinate/host the Friday Harbor gathering in May. They live about 20 miles off of I5, and it was too good of an offer to turn down. Especially since it was only about 20 miles less than I had planned to travel today anyway. I turned off at Albany, OR, where I stopped at Costco to top of C-Traveler with 65 gallons of gasoline, at the cost of $4.52/gallon. That's the cheapest gas between Sacramento and Blain, Wa., where I'll join Bill and Mike and launch. I stopped by Walmart to pick up a few things, including some Baked Chicken, salad and cookies to share with Gary and Colleen. They were just coming back from the Delta Extravaganza Cruise as well, and only got home about half hour before I got here. So one less thing for Colleen to do. (Fix supper.) They have a very nice place here. I got to meet the two Black Labs, but didn't get a chance to meet the chickens and cows. After supper, Gary helped me do some battery work. I've learned that the larger posts on the boat batteries, are more efficient than the screw posts. So I bought some connectors to fit over those posts, and then moved the wires from the screw posts, to those connectors. I'm hoping that helps the batteries to provide more voltage and capacity to run the freezer all night without causing a voltage drop that keeps my Webasto heater from running! No pictures this evening, but if I remember, maybe I can get some tomorrow before leaving.Read more