We left home Saturday, finally,
about noon, after a morning of leisurely loading. We still forgot the grill
table and the grill tools. We don’t know if we’ll have a table at the Samboree.
Ray may have to squat to grill our food.
Monroe has a long strip of shops
along the North side of Highway 2, with plenty of parking behind. We stopped
there and had a quick lunch at Burger King. Then it was on up the road. Highway
2 is much more fun on a motorcycle than it is in a motorhome. But we had no
trouble and got here about 4:30. The campground was pretty full, but we finally
found a spot to squeeze into. The site
was so unlevel that we could never get the motorhome quite level although we
tried several times. Finally we gave up and decided we were as level as we were
going to get. We got all the slides out, but Ray had to trim some tree branches
away from the sofa window. It was a beautiful site.
There were many tent campers for
the long weekend and right now it’s ok to have an attended open flame and each
site has a fire pit. Many, many people had fires all day. Such an amount of
smoke was hard on my lungs, but it was worst in the evening. Luckily, it is
cool and breezy enough up here that we shut the windows early to keep from
freezing. But it still aggravated my lungs and throat. This place had a big mix
of camping styles over the weekend and a ton of kids and dogs of all ages.
Several families made a reunion of it and there were sites with one motorhome
or trailer and a pack of tents surrounding it. A couple of sites had only a
group of tents. Some younger men were here with a “toy hauler” motorhome and a
couple of motorcycles. They didn’t have an outside tv, but they sure did have
an outside radio! One of the groups camping was unfortunate in that they had a
woman in attendance who laughed like a hyena and seemed to find everything
funny. She didn’t shut up until midnight. Or maybe she laughed like that little
fuzzy animal with big pointy ears and a pointy nose that Jabba the Hutt had.
Either way, annoying.
Yesterday afternoon people
started to clear out and a nice wide full hook-up site came open just down the
road from us, so we moved. We realized right away how much more comfortable it
is with the rig level! We got level in this site on the first try. After having
only water and electric hook-ups it is quite a luxury to have sewer hook-ups. It wasn't as pretty as the first place we were in. Today
we needed to roll out our big awning! It’s the first time we’ve used it.
I parboiled the spaghetti and
froze it a few days before we left. I heated it up in its zipper bag in the
microwave. We couldn’t tell it had been frozen at all, and the texture and
doneness were just right. It seems to have been a good idea. Tonight is the
real test, as we are having mac and cheese using some parboiled frozen mac. (turned out just fine)
Yesterday afternoon Ray carted
our folding chairs down to the meadow and we watched the Wenatchee Youth
Circus. Some of those kids are Really Good. It was fun to watch them. The
meadow is sort of an amphitheater on one side, so we sat up on top of the slope
and had a good view.
Some birds had built a nest in
the end of the sofa-side slide-out awning and today we found it. There were 3
little white eggs in it. We felt badly about taking a nest on the road and away
from the parents. We’ll check first from now on.
More people will be leaving with
us Wednesday and then the campground will be rather empty until Friday, when it
will fill up again. There are 300+ acres here and most of them woods. All the
camping spaces are in 3 loops by the Lodge. We think most of it was built before
the days of quad slides, as most of the sites are rather narrow and one whole
loop is inaccessible to rigs the size of ours. But it is beautiful here under
the trees. There are many birds and some chipmunks. Norman's first chipmunks, in fact. He knew right away those were prey animals. He never did make up his mind about the fluffy little dog next door. I have not seen a bear, but
there have been bears in the park before. I do not mind if they are not here this weekend. I have spent considerable time outside reading in the shade and I
have loved that. Ray and Norman have taken their morning and afternoon naps.
Here’s a picture. They are a rousing group. Hahaha
Ray has made a slideshow to play
on our tv, of some pics from motorcycle trips. It’s fun to look back and
remember.
We discovered that one can cook
a grilled cheese sandwich on the Weber Q, and it comes out quite nicely. We
weren’t sure what would happen. They did have grill marks, but that was just
extra flavor, right?
Today we leave for Moses Lake and the Samboree! We'll see how a Samboree is, as we've never been to one before. Several of the people camped around us will be there too...but they left already. We are at the Lodge to wash the clothes. We realized today that the other day when we were moving the mh that a tree had snapped the radio antenna off our roof. We heard the snap but couldn't figure out what the noise was. Grumble. No other mechanical problems have reared their ugly heads so far. But the lady parked next to us could not get her living room slide in this morning. She's waiting for the motorhome rescue guys. And then she'll be along to the Samboree. I suspect it will be hot and humid in Moses Lake. Ugh.
For lunch today, a nice crab, shrimp, and macaroni salad. For supper, tuna noodle casserole. Hmm. It's a fishy day.
