Go Hawks!

Mt Vernon TT (Thousand Trails). #G24 Nov 18-21

Another typical Thousand Trails (for the NW?), lots of trees so no sat, no wifi, no tv.  Easier to say what does work: 4g!  Nice spot in the trees (with no leaves), level and long!

More hello and goodbyes (for now) seeing family and extended family!

A defective 30 amp connection would allow us to plug in but not run more than one thing at a time without losing power.  We mostly made due (turn off heat to run micro, turn off heat to run hot water, turn off heat to run blow dryer and don't run any of those at the same time)!  Campground was responsive but work wasn't completed until we were close to leaving (partly because we weren't home and they didn't want to work on it without checking with us first which was wise in case we had something important running).  We actually don't know if it was fixed since we left before we could test it!

Camping world in Burlington has an awesome huge flag that was almost always flying straight out (very windy in this specific area).  And the friendliest staff!  We exchanged the Wally since DISH  said it was defective and we tested it at mom's when we went to watch the Seahawks....and it worked!  Yeah!  Now we can watch recorded shows and at least the channels on 1 or 2 (or all 3) sats!

Wings, pizza and crab dip made by my bro
for the Seahawks game.  Yum!!!

Missing our friends and family back in Vancouver already!  Happy to see friends and family up here! Great to watch the Seahawks win with family (and eat great food!!!).

Lessons learned:  Check pedestal more carefully before leveling,  deploying slides and settling (probably not realistic!).

Mods to the shower and water pressure are totally worth it (we'll blog on that hopefully!).

Highlights:  Seeing family and dear extended family in Bellingham, tips for places to see, jagged snowy mountains that made rare appearances with weather breaks.

Low lights:  other than the hassle of the electrical, not much!  I would say having to move every 4 days at TT campgrounds can be inconvenient at times.  We moved from La Conner sooner than we wanted in order to not be moving on a day we had other plans and we wouldn't have moved at all (staying up to the max 2 weeks) had we not wanted to be at TT for Thanksgiving.

Things we're wondering:  How we're going to function (poorly?!) if neither of us can remember what we wanted to write down to remember by the time we could write it down!   There was something enlightening I wanted to say here but I can't remember what it was!