Monaco Factory Coburg, Oregon

Hello from beautiful Coburg, Oregon. We arrived here last Saturday to get some work done on the coach. Monday they did the estimate and contacted the extended warranty company. Tuesday the inspector arrived and did his work. Wednesday they got approval and ordered a new radiator. This radiator has to be built and will take anywhere from 4 - 7 days. That means that they will have the parts either on Tuesday (our hope) or Friday. In either case it should only take 2 days to complete the work. If we get it Tuesday we will make it to Vegas in time to meet Aaron and Dezina. If it doesn't get here until Friday then we may not get to see them. We are praying that it gets here Tuesday.

The Coburg area is nice. There is an antique district down the road with a very interesting shop featuring Chinese and Japanese items. The owners took over the shop from her parents 40 years ago. They travel to the far east to buy items and they said it is getting harder and harder to buy because the Chinese don't need the money as much as they used to. Neither of them speak the language but apparently some of their great granchildren do.

We have found a great place to find RV parts that has allowed us to do some little fix up jobs on the coach. We have replaced an air conditioner cover, fixed a bay door handle and replaced the headlight assemblies (the lenses wer all yellow).

We also found a woodworking shop where they were doing lathe demos. Jackie turned an ink pen on the lathe that will be sent to a service man in Iraq. She thought it was pretty neat working with wood.

We don't get to do a lot of sightseeing because we have to be close to the coach in case they need inside. The reason of course is the pets.

Pray that we will get out of here by Thursday or Friday next week so that we can make it to Vegas on time.

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