Awake: 6:08am Temp 70 sleep 6+24 sunny elevation 39 ft
overnight @ Kent, WA.
Using our site’s instant-on-phone service, we talk with Katrina while en
route to her school in Denver to tutor the 2nd grader this morning. She’s
doing fine &, of course, keeping busy.
Before we leave this higher priced KOA, we watch a family of 6 in a pop-up
camper + tent across the road in front of us; they gather their lawn
chairs, tent & other equipment, shrink the camper, load up their truck,
hitch up the camper & drive away. This was good for us because; yesterday,
they were gone but their tent, lawn chairs & equipment was blocking our
turning radius & thus, the extra maneuvering necessary.
About an hr before we leave, Kathy made a trip to the campground office &
on her return, started a conversation with our near neighbors to the west.
Dale & Fran from St Petersburg, Florida are interesting people, so I too,
join in the conversation. Nice people; we both had a lot we could have
talked about.
It was no problem driving out of the most expensive campground site we
parked @ for a long time…. @ 11:20am. And our Detroit Diesel engine
started up nicely with only a wisp of smoke.
We take hwy 212 to I-405 north to the Bothell-Everett Hwy….arriving @ the
Lake Pleasant RV park @ Bothell, WA @ 12:10pm.
Today’s travel: 51 min 34 miles 5.4 gal used 6.3 mpg
43.2 avg speed
We’ve heard nothing but good things about this campground from other
RV’ers so our expectations are good. Unfortunately for us & fortunately
for them, this campground is extremely popular & we were not able to get a
reservation for a campsite until 5 days ago. The line was always busy or
the office was closed. Consequently, only 1 campsite was available & we
took it.
Well, we thought our maneuvering @ the KOA yesterday was close; this
parking site was not meant for 45 footers. After 2 tries & 30 min later,
we finalized our parking.
After lunch, I call the boys to let them know we are in town & if it’s ok,
let’s get together tomorrow. Meanwhile, using the Suzuki, K & I tour this
small town of Bothell & do some very light shopping @ the QFC grocery
store.
7: 10 dinner: Parmesan chicken with spaghetti & sauce, mixed salad, bread
with balsamic vinegar & olive oil.
2 movies tonight: “The Third Man” with Joseph Cotton, Orson Welles, Alida
Valli, Trevor Howard, etc. Considered by many to be the greatest suspense
film of all time & inevitably turns up on every best-film list. This guy
Cotton tries to find an old friend & learns of a vicious European black
market organization…..which unfortunately for him, makes him a marked man.
This flick is good but do watch closely. 1949
“Foreign Affair” with Billy Wilder, Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, etc.
Jean Arthur is sent to Berlin to investigate post-WW-2 conditions, finds
romance instead with hot competition from Dietrich. A little schmaltzy but
most interesting was seeing the bombed out ruins of Berlin after the war.
Now, were the sights for real or Hollywood props? 1948
High temp=95 Lights out:11:03pm ,
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