This will be more akin to a rant than a blog entry….. be warned!
It started raining around midnight, if it continued it would be a wet job packing everything up! It continued, I did get wet!!
We headed out around 10 AM for a 200 mile trip to Bellevue, Washington. Initially we headed north then cut across to the east to pick up I5, this Interstate runs from the Mexican border all the way up to the Canadian border. The weather cleared a little but there were still isolated showers.
Just south of Tacoma WA the traffic started to slow, and then slow some more and then got a little bit slower! This was early afternoon on a Saturday, I dread to think what a weekday rush-hour would be like. We picked up speed for a few miles, but then the same thing happened again approaching Seattle. Bitching Betty ( the GPS) decided to throw a wobbly around the same time, she kept changing the suggested route, probably in response to the traffic situation. Normally I listen to the voice command, then check them out on the screen map, unfortunately with the trailer in heavy traffic there is no time to look at the screen.
On a number of occasions I was told to take the next left / right when she really meant the one after that one! This led to some fancy cutting in and out of traffic or unscheduled tours of residential areas. I was not a happy driver!
We finally made it to the “campground” and our day was complete. This wasn’t a campground it was a paved parking lot with water hydro and sewer hookups. RV sales lots have less RV’s per square foot than this place, or put another way, battery hens have more space per hen than we have per trailer.
We checked in, and as is usual asked how we access the internet. There is no b****y internet available from the trailer, you have to take you computer up to the office!!
Luckily we are only here for 3 nights, and we only came for one purpose which is a trip we are taking on Monday.
Despite being in rant mode I’ll spare you the details of the last couple of “fun” hours. Suffice it to say there was an unpleasant odour in our wash room which necessitated the complete removal of the toilet!