This year’s trip has been different than previous years. In the previous years, we stayed on the move and covered long distances with fairly short stops at each locale. This year, due to some scheduling constraints, we chose to use a different approach. We covered short distances with long stays in each region.
We have stayed this year in many places for a week which did not occur in 2014 to 2016. There are a few spots where we have stayed two weeks and here in Paradise is one of them. The benefits to the pocketbook are pretty substantial because our fuel costs are lower and some private campgrounds give us a discount for longer stays.
However, longer stays also allow us to hang around the trailer all day on some dates because we are not obliged to always be doing something. Today was one of those days. Very little exploring or discovering or productive labor of any sort bothered us today. I checked the oil and filled the washer on the truck. We set up our barbecue. Some beer was consumed. Some whiskey, too.
We could have gone sightseeing but raging fires in eastern Washington are currently saturating the air of western Washington with grey, vision-blocking smog that has cut visibility to about 2 miles. It has also been unseasonably hot and to avoid being fricasseed, we have stayed real close to our trailer with ample conditioning. We were awful uninteresting today.