A Walk To The Beach From My Campground – Ocean City, Washington

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The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails Oceana RV Resort in Ocean City, Washington. I’ll be here until July 2nd.

Today’s blog entry shows a view of my current location. The last section closest to the Ocean is currently closed to RV’s and is vacant. The bridge crossing the canal was declared unsafe by an engineering firm last October. Replacement of a new bridge awaits a permit from some governmental agency.

 

A couple of days ago I walked to the beach a distance (according to Google earth) of .66 miles from my campsite. Here are the photos that I took…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

 From the western edge of the vacant portion (this Google earth view is from the past), it’s about 1,000 feet thru the trees and about another 1,000 feet across the sand to the water’s edge…

The vacant portion…

 The path to the beach…

 Through the trees…

Pretty flowers along the way…

 Getting closer to the sand…

A trail marker…

 Finally the water comes in to view…

Another trail marker…

And yet another trail marker

Looking due west…

A 180 degree panorama of the beach…

A real nice place to jog…

 It was a long distance…but I could see some white. I wonder if it could be an Eagle? Full zoom proves it to be true…

Standing at water’s edge. Next land is Japan 7,000 miles distance…

A 180 degree view of the Pacific Ocean…

Looking back east. I can hardly see the trail markers…

With the zoom I can now see them…

Some times I could follow my own footprints…

Finally back to the campground. A real nice walk…

I hope you enjoyed the photos!

 Yesterday was sunny/cloudy/rainy and 64 degrees. Forecast for today is mostly cloudy with showers and 65 degrees.

Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

The red dot on the below map shows my approximate location in the State of Oregon. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

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HYBRIDS

I love my Toyota Prius so much, I don’t’ want it totaled. Thus, it is still unfixed. I filed a complaint with the Insurance Commission and they agreed with me that Triple AAA should revalue my car because I installed a new EV battery pack in it 18 months ago. So, now I wait. The wheels of justice from insurance, complaints, etc. turn slowly.

Today, I went on line and looked at other electric vehicles, thinking maybe I’d  buy a second hand EV. Wow, the resale value is very high.

But, check out this:

The numbers are in – the Mitsubishi i-MiEV is the most affordable electric vehicle in the entire United States². A federal tax credit of $7,500 reduces the total cost to $15,495. Your monthly payment will also be significantly cheaper than a combustion-engine vehicle, since the i-MiEV is 100% electric. That means no paying for gas, oil changes, transmission overhauls, or combustion-engine specific maintenance. As an owner of an electric vehicle, you also get a carpool access lane sticker, so you can get where you’re going even faster. Make sure you check your state for any additional savings!  The car gets 110 miles per charge and has several charging options.

Not Bad

I also checked Gas 2.0

 Volvo Planning Plug-In Hybrids For Every U.S. Model.

Another bit from Gas 2.0 which originally was published on a website I’d never heard of

EVobsession 

Here is the story:

Prime Minister Tobgay, of the mountain Kingdom of Bhutan recently visited Japan. While there, he asked executives at Nissan and Mitsubishi to help him replace every car on the capital’s roads with EVs.

Furthermore, these EVs would be powered by green, sustainable hydropower, which fuels Bhutan 100%. It actually produces so much excess power that 95% of it is exported to neighboring India. Bhutan had been trading this excess energy for petrol to power vehicles, but now that energy could be directed right back to residents’ homes. Could Bhutan be the first nation to go 100% electric?

Interesting thought. The U.S. should be so innovative and try for one small state and keep leveraging from there, state by state with gas stations given incentives to offer charging stations.  Think of the savings of no transmission rebuilds, oil changes, and so on. I like it.