Returning to the Coast

The Wild Women stayed in a B&B in Boring and Les took the motorhome and Jeep back to the coast. Destination, Thousand Trails Pacific City campground. Now keep in mind that normally Les drives the motorhome and Jill is the navigator. But for this drive, Les and Indy had to rely on Google Maps for navigation. At the State Park, Les had to park out of the trees to get the Starlink to work to set up Google maps and get it talking throgh the motorhome's radio. After messing with that and not being successful, he started out using the instructions on the screen of his tablet. There were lots of turns on narrow , twist back country roads. At one point he found a large parking lot to pull into to let traffic go by. As he was stopping, planning to try to get Google Maps to work, Google Maps ordered him to return to the road he just left very loudly from the motorhome radio. So he proceded down the road. At some point, Google lost contact with the radio intermittently. Instructions returned without the beginning of the message. Usually, there was enough of the message that he could follow what it was saying, but south bound on I-5 toward Salem, one message was simple "East". Having no idea what that meant, he continued toward Salem. Unfortunately, he was supposed to make a turn toward the coast. Les got off I-5 in Salem and found a big parking lot and stopped to try and get Google Maps work correctly again. He gave up and checked the map directions and saw he should turn Right out of the paqrking lot and head west on Highway 22. Leaving parking lot, Google told him to turn Left. He did and quickly found himself ignoring Google and found his own way through the back of the Outlet Mall and then Google Maps finally starter giving him correct instructions again. Heading west on Hwy 22, there came another place a turn was required, but the road in front of him had several possible turns and signs that didn't help. Quickly, he entered and small town and he knew something was not right. He was just starting to find a place to park when Jill called. She was following Les on her Find My app and knew he was lost. We got back heading west on Hwy 22 with lots of confused instructions. Eventully, Les got to Highway 130 to Pacific City, yea! Jill said it look straighter the staying on Hwy 22. It was very narrow, twisty, and had about 4 single lane bridges, but it got him to Hwy 101 and headed north. At that point Google Maps was able to guide him to the Thousand Trails. It was well past time for a nap, Les was not only quite tired, but also very frustrated. Before dinner, Les found the only market and did some shopping. He took the bikes off the Jeep, planning to go to McMinnville. But that story will have to wait until tomorrow, stay tuned.Read more