7/19/08 - Bandon, Oregon

We woke up a 5:30 am and went back to the beach because there was a super low tide that exposed marine life in the tide pools. We saw lots of star fish, sea anemones, sponges, barnacles and sea weed. We went back to the rally and Jim went to an LED light seminar. The kids decorated their bikes and rode around all the loops in the campground. After getting together for a group picture the “egg viewing” began. Everyone checked out each others’ trailers. There were Casitas, Scamps, Big Foots, Trilliums, Bolers, U-Hauls, Compact Jr,s, Compact IIs, Fiber Streams, Olivers, Escapes, etc. Some of these models are no longer made but people have bought and restored them and use them regularly. Everyone got together at night for a pot luck dinner. They had awards and prizes -- we won the award for travelling Farthest From the South (we traveled 5,477 miles to get there.) The people from Florida only traveled a little over 5,000 miles. We received as a door prize a very nice Lodge cast iron dutch oven. Now Jim has to learn to cook for me.