Not as Young as I used to be

I made an important discovery this past weekend during my much anticipated "Waterfall Weekend" with Larrieann...  

With the old van not being that reliable when it comes to running these days we decided to drive my pickup instead.  We'll sleep in the bed of it under the stars, it'll be so romantic.  Ahhh... maybe not so romantic since the wonderful blowup mattress we brought to sleep on needed electricity for it to get blown up.  The part of the forest we chose to sleep in Friday night didn't have electrical plug-ins to run the blow-up mattress inflater so we slept on my rubber bed liner instead.  We were plenty warm snuggled up in our sleeping bags but oh God were we uncomfortable laying in the bed of the truck.  To make things worse Stryker was on full alert for any danger.  With every little noise in the darkness, a flutter of a birds wing, a barometric change in the weather he was standing up in between Larrieann and I where we were trying to sleep.  After each danger would subside he would lay back down between us, ok not really lay down, more like flop down with a clunk.  I think we all got maybe two hours of semi-sleep that first night.  The next morning, to say the least, Larrieann and I were stiff.

We had a wonderful time hiking into several waterfalls we had visited before in past years and we explored a few we hadn't seen before.  We hiked the short distance into the North Umpqua Hot Springs which was interesting due to the naked people bathing in the mineral laden water.  Several natural occurring pools of hot tub quality water burbles out of the ground on a cliff that over looks the river flowing a short distance below. 

Ending up Saturday afternoon at Diamond Lake we had a early dinner at the lodge there.  With a quick nap afterwards and storm clouds brewing overhead we decided to drive back home and our comfortable bed at home.  Neither of us could stand another night in the back of my truck, let alone if it would start raining.

Sunday morning late we woke up an went down and bought this travel trailer.  A 2008, 27' Jayco Jflight.  It's nothing fancy but it will have to do till our ship comes in and we can afford a nicer one. We had been thinking about buying a trailer for a few years now but after our last overnight adventure it made our minds up.  We are both getting too old to sleep in the bed of a truck.  If anyone knows someone who would like a van that runs 95% of the time?  $600.00