Rain; Eugene, OR

We sure don't have much to report! It rained just about all day on Sunday. The rain stopped just long enough for me to snap this pic of the campground. This has been our view out the front windshield for the past two days, its starting to get old!

It was a good day to take a long nap and read a book. We did manage to head out to the grocery store to get some supplies for our Morel dinner. We fixed, without question, the BEST meal we have had since we moved into our coach. It started with tenderloin grilled, medium rare, on the grill. We topped them with a morel sauce made with the fresh morels we picked up at the Farmer's market, beef stock, red wine, butter, shallots, garlic and Thyme. We sauteed some fresh spinach with the chantrelles the lady at the Farmer marked threw in our morel bag, for free. Some fresh hot bread with olive oil for dipppin', with a little fresh grated parm, Maldon Salt and fresh pepper completed the meal.

For wine, we had an amazing find at the grocery store. We found a 1998 Delille cellars D2 (Washington, $38.99) I think this is the most we have spent on a bottle of wine since we started the trip. We decided to splurge, the morels deserved this! I used to sell Delille wines back in Michigan, we classified them as, "The best wines you've never heard of". They are a small producer of Bordeaux style blends, just Northeast of Seattle. Normally, you would never find a bottle like this in grocery store(yah' gotta love the Pacific Northwest). You might find it a fine wine shop and probably only hear about if the wine clerk mentioned it! It was as good as we remembered and its smoky, earthy essence was perfect with the Morels!


After a great meal, we settled in for the evening with some TV, as the rain continued. The weather report for Monday is for partly sunny skies and high in the mid 60's. We're hoping we can get the bikes out tomorrow!

-Rich-