In 2012, my employer asked me if I would run an eight-month job in Tillamook, Oregon. After leaving Jackie home the previous year while I ran off to San Francisco for twelve weeks to run a job down there, she made it clear that she wasn't going to be left at home again. I certainly wasn't going to commute a hundred-plus miles to work every day, so we decided to sell the house and buy a fifth wheel and move to the beach. So we did. We purchased a 38' toy-hauler (the BFT) and headed off to the Oregon coast for what turned out to be a whole year. Our only campground that year was Camper Cove, just about twelve miles south of Tillamook.
In 2013, we were already camping full-time at Camper Cover RV Park just south of Tillamook, Oregon. After I completed my work in Tillamook, I continued to work at different jobs along the Oregon Coast. Once work for me at the beach slowed down, we moved to a KOA park just east of Corvallis, OR. We stayed there for a month and then moved thirty minutes south to River Life Resort. The park was really nice, all sites had concrete pads and a nice lawn. The park was later bought out and is now part of a church resort. When the "out-of-town work" slowed, we moved back to the Portland area. This time we landing in a park just off the 5 north of Vancouver, WA, Tr-Mountain RV Park. Again, we stayed there for a month and then had the good fortune to park on a friend's (Dori) property right on the Columbia River just east of Vancouver. We stayed there for the next three and a half years until I retired. We started the year living on Dori's property in our BFT (fifth-wheel). After a couple of months we decided that we'd sell the truck as it was costing us about $20 a day to keep and we weren't driving it at all. On Father's Day we were at an RV at the Portland Expo Center and wound up buying a forty foot diesel pusher and trading in the BFT. We're very happy we did so. Once we had the coach, we decided to take it out once a month on a weekend camping trip. Funny thing was, every time we took it out, something happened. I thought I was jinxed.
2015 was our second year living our Dori's property on the Columbia River. We did our best to take a camping trip one weekend a month and found a few new parks to add to our experiences. Every trip, we learned a new way to break our rig; fortunately, nothing too serious.