Matt Dralle
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Location: Livermore CA USA
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 Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 6:19 pm Post subject: RV Transition Training w/ Mike Seager - Day 1 - GettingThere |
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The trip to Vernonia Oregon was pleasantly uneventful and rather relaxing, actually. The Flight on Horizon Air was smooth and the plane left Oakland Airport right on time and even arrived at Portland Airport 10 minutes early. I was also pleasantly surprised that the Enterprise rental car establishment at the airport had a brand new 2010 Chevy Camero's in the fleet. I've been wanting to drive one since they came out and quickly exchanged my "luxury car" reservation for the sweet, Silver number seen in the pictures. Its a very nice car. Plenty of power, handles reasonably well although it tends to over-steer in the corners, rides well, and has a "very nice" factory sound system. The system has XM radio support, but Enterprise doesn't maintain a subscription to the service which is a big-old fat bummer in my opinion. FM radio is a jungle; ack.
Anyway, back to the trip... It was around 2pm by the the time I got on the road, so my belly was telling me it was time for a refill. I noticed this nice looking place along the highway called Rose's Restaurant and Bakery and it sounded like what I was in the mood for, and it turned out my hunch was right. I ordered a big 'ol greasy BBQ cheese burger that was as big as a mountain and very tasty. They have some awesome looking deserts there too, but I resisted. I don't know why I resisted, mind you... Just as I was leaving, the sun turned to dark gray clouds and then it just started to hail like crazy! It was pretty cool.
It was about an hour and a half drive from the Portland Airport out to Vernonia. Along the way, I snapped a couple of pictures of a sweet glider airport by the highway. The green fields with the airplanes in the background was quite a sight. I thought wistfully of the RV-8 trapped in the hangar back at home...
Once you turn off the main highway heading towards Vernonia proper, the scenery is quite spectacular. The filtered sun through the various clouds and patches of rain made the trip just that much more enjoyable. Well, that and the purr of the Camero's V8. I'm just saying...
I rolled into Vernonia and the Garmin GPS that came with the car took me right up to the front door of the Rockcreek Bed & Breakfast. What a lovely place! The pictures of the interior are the living quarters for the guest. There's just the one bedroom, so I pretty much had the run of the areas shown. The owners live in the back half of the house, but the two areas are divided and so the guest's front half is very private.
Patricia Davis, the curator of the Rockcreek B&B was very nice and made sure everything was just right. She promised a big breakfast in the morning with all of my favorite things, so I'm looking forward to that!! 
If you're coming to Vernonia for your transition training with Mike Seager, you own it to yourself to stay here at the Rock Creek B&B. You won't be sorry. The accommodations are outstanding and the price is very reasonable. Here is their web site:
http://www.rockcreekbb.com/
After I got settled in, I drove out to the Vernonia airport and looked around until I found Mike's hanger. I knocked on the door and found him there still and we had a nice conversation and he showed me his Model T restoration project. Very cool! I'll have to get some pictures of it tomorrow.
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Matt Dralle
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