Today was a travel day. We cleaned up and re-packed all the stuff from our trailer that we had spread around during our 11-day stay at Grandy Creek TT near Concrete, WA. We had lounged around the trailer drinking fortified coffee before starting our work so, by the time we left, it was mandatory check-out time of 11:00 AM.
We were fortunate in that we had a very short trip to our next campsite, Mount Vernon RV Resort, in Bow. We are baffled as to why the campground in Bow would be named after Mount Vernon, a community a few miles south of Bow. It is about 25 miles from Concrete and we were pulling into registration before noon. Peggy set up the reservation at this facility and the timing was impeccable. We had settled into a site with satellite reception and plenty of room before noticing that there was a strong, steady stream of folks entering the park behind us. By late afternoon, not a single space remained in the park because of all the folks getting out of town for the 4th of July weekend.
Mount Vernon RV Resort has gravel roads, very few sewer hookups (we didn’t get one), almost non-existent honey wagon service (Tuesdays and Thursdays but not on holidays instead of daily), no campground wifi, nifty restroom/shower facilities, ample nearby beautiful scenery, a nearby casino and tobacco outlet and a tremendous variety of birds. We set the feeder out right after arrival.
Our arrival time was so early in the day that we had plenty of time to drive down to Mount Vernon’s Costco store to load up on groceries and liquor. We could tell we must have acquired quite a bit of stuff because the tab was almost $500. We picked up a close relative of Irish Cream that they sell in WA called O’Mara’s. It is called Irish Country Cream and is made from wine which seems a little weird. Regular Irish Cream, like Bayley’s or Kirkland, is very costly in WA due to their onerous sin tax on liquor. The same bottle of Kirkland Irish Cream that costs $16 in California sells at a state-regulated price of $31 here in the state named after our first president. O’Mara’s sells the same sized bottle for $13, a product of a vigorous wine industry lobbying effort that limits or eliminates taxes on grape-derived products. Gotta love special interests working on behalf of the impoverished vineyard owners at the expense of the rest of us affluent drunks, alcoholics and rummies.