No better place to windsurf than the Columbia River Gorge. Some places are great for swells These places are best for speed.

• Event Site
• Rowena
• Mosier

• Macheezmo Mouse (RIP)
• Baja Fresh (only one left in AZ)
• Taco Del Mar (no longer in AZ)
• Chipotle

• McMenamin's brew pubs in Oregon and Washington - they have the best anywhere, and you can get a Boca patty or a Gardenburger patty. I like the Garden Dungeon and the Garden Commie (Communication Breakdown) the best. Goes great with Ruby beer. Get it with a garden salad because the fries are super greasy.
• Red Robin - nationwide. Their veggie burger uses a Gardenburger patty. Their mustard secret sauce is pretty good, and their steak fries are the best!
• Burgerville - Oregon and Washington - only place I'll eat a black bean burger. You have to tell them not to put too much goop on it, otherwise it will be drowned in Chipotle mayonnaise sauce, which has a great flavor when not overdone.
• Verde Lea in Cottonwood, Arizona. The best place I've found in AZ for a decent veggie burger.

• Rock Creek all the way to the saddle past Chicken Foot lake
• TJ Lake
• Crystal Lake
• Mammoth Crest
• McGee Creek
• Convict Lake loop
• Lake Mary Road - bike path from town up to Lake Mamie
• Mammoth Mountain - take the gondola to the top, then hike down

Here's everything needed to build a high-pressure outdoor patio misting system with 24 feet of stainless steel lines with misting nozzles every two feet.

• 12 – 12/24 .012” Brass Misting Nozzles
• 5 – 3/8” Double ferrule compression union/brass
• 3 – 3/8” Double ferrule compression elbow/brass
• 1 – 3/8” Double ferrule compression end cap/brass
• 20 – Stainless steel mounting clamp with rubber dampener
• 20 – 1” Hex head screw
• 20 – Plastic anchor
• 2 – (8ft. sections) 3/8” O.D. 316L Stainless steel supply tubing
• 3 – (8ft. sections) 3/8” O.D. 316L Stainless steel atomizing line (24 inch spacing, ½” riser)

One of the hard financial facts about buying a new RV is that it loses a lot of value as soon as you drive it off the lot. I bought a big 5th Wheel to live in while I was working away from home, but when I was laid off, I had no way to move it (need a new truck) and I'm underwater on the loan because I haven't been able to sell it for what I owe.

I learned a lot from this experience. If I could do it over, I would use the advice below to not lose so much on an investment in an RV.

• Do your research and make sure you're buying the right RV for your needs. If you buy a fifth wheel and later decide you need a motorhome, you're going to take it in the shorts for the mistake.
• When buying new, don't buy a top-of-the-line rig. That $130,000 Crossroads Redwood, discounted to $108K, most likely won't ...

• The Wall
• Doug's Beach
• Rowena
• Swell City
• The T'aint
• White Salmon bridge
• Three Mile
• Rosevelt

• Pine Country Restaurant, Williams, AZ
• Rock Springs Cafe, Black Canyon City, AZ
• Rock Creek Lakes Resort, Rock Creek Canyon, near Mammoth Lakes CA
• Marie Callender's (if you can find one)

When I bought my fifth wheel travel trailer new, we found there were lots of things we needed to buy to make the trailer more livable.

• Silverware holder for small drawer
• dish dryer for sink
• small trash bins for bathroom, bedroom
• Replacement quartz-halogen or LED light bulbs
• Toilet chemicals
• Sewage hose extension
• "slinky" ramp for sewage hose
• 4" metal duct tube to run sewage hose through
• adapters for various amperage lines, 50 to 30, 30 to 20, 220 volt to 110 volt
• TP
• Oven lighter (butane)
• surge protector
• window a/c unit
• mylar insulation for windows