Thurs. Apr. 11 Day 91    clear & sunny, cooler as we go north

Sheila had a bad night with a coughing spell that kept her up most of the night so she left a note to let her sleep.  Check out time at 7 Feathers is 11 AM so I disconnected everything, (quietly), and was ready to go at a moments notice. I had asked for an extension on check out time but our spot was booked.  Sheila woke about 11:30 so we moved down to the rest area so she could dress & have breakfast.  We finally pulled out at 12:50 @ 158858.  We changed drivers at 2:45, and we made a rest area stop 3:20 to 3:30, then were off down the road.  Sheila pulled into a Pilot station to fill up @ 4 PM @ 159123 where I took over & were on the road again by 4:10 PM.  Then the GPS took us to the Wheatland ferry over the Willamette River.  It is a toll ferry, I had checked off “no toll roads” on the GPS. When we got there the toll was only a few dollars but after missing one and waiting for the return, (the river is only a few 100 ft across, probably half or less than the old Albion ferry), and it is a cable ferry pulled across by a suspended cable; the ferry attendant came to us & said we would bottom out going up the ramp to board & could wipe out our sewer hose connection underneath.  So we turned around and then I checked the GPS avoidances and found it has a “ferries” choice so I clicked “no” for that.  Now it routed us to a bridge but this delayed us so we got into the RV Park later than planned.  The ferry episode cost us from 4:20 to 4:35 plus a long round trip to the bridge, so we didn’t arrive at the RV Park until 5:30 @ 159183.   At the ferry the GPS had said it was 18 miles to the park, but once turned around, going via the ‘no ferries’ route it was 27 miles over the bridge and on rural roads, (good pavement but slow).  We were all hooked up & settled in for the evening by 6:00. We’ll be at the “Old Stone Village” RV Park 2 nights because tomorrow is the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum day was they have the “Spruce Goose”.  By the way “Evergreen” is the man behind the museum, he started Evergreen Helicopters.  The museum was his son’s vision.  He was an ‘ace’ pilot who loved and wanted to preserve the WWII fighter planes.  Unfortunately he was killed in a car accident while still quite young, but his father brought his dream to fruition.

Distance covered – 325km – 202mi