Awake 7:00 am
One more time...the complimentary breakfast @ the Hampton Inn. We pack our
suitcases, pay the bill & drive up the Queen Ann hill & stock up on
groceries for our motorhome @ Trader Joe's.
Leave Trader Joe's @ 9:35am. Take Mercer Ave to I-5...I-90...Rt 26...to
Royal City, WA. 3+30 en route including a fuel stop. It's another nice
day...and the East side of the Cascades, very warm as expected.
As we pull into the Union 76 fuel station area, the onion storage building
that we have stored our motorhome in is directly behind it, James, the
keeper of the key to this building is also pulling in at the same time.
What timing. James opens the BIG door & there she is: still in one piece,
our home on wheels. I tell James that after we make reservations @ the
local campground for the night & visit the office of this company, we'll
be back to transfer our groceries, suitcases & drive it away so they can
have their storage building back.
Upon entering our coach, we find.....feces from the mices! UGH! Not
again...$#@&%$#. This has happened before during storage. How to keep
those pesty critters out of our home? Anyway, Kathy gets a good cleaner
right on the job....ME...& her too. We only clean the walking areas now &
will be more thorough at cleaning in the campground. For now though, I
notice the inside temp...low 60's, outside it's already 92. I was told
this place would stay cool all summer and they were right on.
The Detroit diesel starts right up. Kathy follows me in the Suzuki to the
campground. After parking, we extend all 4 slides & do a thorough cleaning
job all around. The mices had no visible nests, but they did chew up some
of our paper towel.
Kathy drives to a local fresh veggie & fruit store to stock up on the real
tasty local grown stuff. I check the basement areas for any other signs of
the mices...none found. Then I program the GPS for tomorrows destination
of Missoula, Montana.
9:00 pm Dinner: Reindeer Sausage, fresh corn on the cob & fresh salad with
all those local grown veggies. It feels good to be " back on the road
again.
lights out: 10:30 pm
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