We all seem ready to go home! We’ve been talking about it the last few days, and today will be the last day that we’re staying in an RV park as we head north, towards home.
The plan is to get to Portland to visit Müfit’s school friend, Craig, and his family, and to park Al outside their house for the night. We weren’t due to get there until after 4pm, so we’d found a museum to visit on the outskirts of Portland where we could kill an hour or so. It was the World of Speed Museum which has a focus on motorsports. Of course, being American, it was aimed more at American motorsport, so included Nascar and drag racing, which we’re not too interested in, but there was a feature on Mario Andretti and all the different types of cars he raced, including F1.
It was quite interesting, but not a very large museum. The highlight for Leland was getting to ride in a Nascar simulator!
After the museum we made our way to Craig’s. there are some quite tight roads around where they live so it wasn’t the easiest journey, and we were travelling in rush hour on a Friday, so not the best time to be doing it. I was worried that we wouldn’t fit outside his house but the space was almost made to measure, and being a quiet street we didn’t have to worry about Al, or anyone hitting him, even though it was a narrow street.
We last saw Craig and his wife Tania, on a different road trip, back in 2012 when their first daughter, Fiona, was only a baby and their second daughter, Harriet, wasn’t even born! Now Fiona is 8 and Harry is 5 and they were both lovely girls, happy to hang out with Leland and Sarah who seemed equally happy to hang out with them!
We had a very nice evening, with a tasty meal, and even the dogs had fun as they got to play with their dog, Coco!
Bolgil Family Adventures 