The next three weeks we dedicated as much time as possible to packing all our personal belongings and taking them to storage. Cleaning the house, working on things that needed repairs (septic alarm, driveway, dryer vent, lawns, etc.).
Wednesday, April 13th
Today we were all done packing and storing and loading the motor home as well. With nothing left to do at the house, we waited until afternoon when the WhidbeyTel workers were done for the day (they are working along our one lane road putting in fiber cable).
Pulling out of the driveway we drove down to Freeland – me in the motor home, Tina in the car. While I filled the propane and fuel tanks at Skagit Farmers Supply, Tina did some grocery shopping across the street at PayLess. Then we headed over to South Whidbey State Park where we will spend the summer as Camp Hosts.
As is typical in most northwest state parks, the road in was built when the biggest thing to come into the park was a small camping trailer. The road twists and turns, winding through old growth forest, between huge trees leaving little room for a driving mistake when your rig is over forty feet with the bicycle rack plus towing the buddy trailer for the car. I scraped by several bushes but finally made my way to the camp host site.
After disconnecting the trailer and with excellent instructions from Tina, I was able to get the rig into the site, leveled, slides out, connected to power, water and septic by 6:00 pm, just in time for dinner! And it wasn’t raining!!
But by ten o’clock the temperature was down in the 30’s, the rain was coming down and it was all together a nasty night out. Fortunately we were prepared for it and put an extra blanket on the bed.
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