Russells on the Road Again

As we started our journey home, we both noted that it actually felt good to be on the road again. We dropped off the rental car on the south end of the island and in about an hour we had driven up to the north end. Our RV, Thor, had made his entrance upon the island via ferry; now he would exit across the towering Deception Pass Bridge.

The bridge is 177 feet high, was built in 1935, and has two narrow lanes with pedestrian paths on either side, just a little nerve-wracking to drive on. Sitting way up in the RV gave us an exhilarating view as we went across and Chris did great driving on it.

Deception Pass Bridge connecting Whidbey and Fidalgo Islands

Chris driving across bridge

Our first night's stay was in Anacortes, Washington at Pioneer Trails RV Park. The campsites were pleasantly arranged around the curving contours of the land instead of the usual straight rows. It was peaceful being nestled under tall trees but it was probably the first time on the trip that we didn't have a view of the sunset. We settled for a nice orange glow in the sky. It was fun watching an episode of House of Cards on Netflix on our outside TV screen with a sleeping bag wrapped around me to keep warm.

Over the weekend we had house guests when Ryan and Meredith drove up from Seattle to experience "glamping" with us. We stayed at Friday Creek Campground in Skagit Valley. The dogs loved playing in the creek.

We've learned that RV parks don't allow tent camping. This place was called a "Campground" and tents were welcome.

Since we had Ryan and Meredith's car we all drove to a little pub out in the middle of nowhere for lunch. I felt like I was back in Texas. We sat outside in the warm sunny weather eating barbecue, listening to country music. There were even horseshoe pits. A pitcher of Canadian-brewed Kokanee beer went down easy.

Around a campfire that night we did the obligatory s'mores and also lit up sparklers left over from 4th of July. Fun stuff.

Sunday was leaving day for us and for Ryan too as he flew to South Korea for a business trip. A fond farewell to Ryan and Meredith and Seattle and off we headed towards Oregon.

Like some sort of mythical creature, Mount Rainier kept popping it's head up and then disappearing as we traveled through Seattle. We also got to see Mount St. Helens with its flattened top from its 1980 eruption.

Mount Rainier

We stopped for the night halfway between Seattle and Portland at an RV Park appropriately called "Midway". This seems like a good place to stop my narration for now.

See you on down the road...