We left Tall Chief RV Resort in Fall City this morning headed north on WA-203 toward Monroe, WA. It is a relatively short drive of about 35 miles but the road is single-lane so I had to actually pay attention to keep the entirety of our stuff from becoming a fixture in some hobby farmer’s pasture. Many rivers and creeks were crossed, all with terrible bridge approaches which make the trailer jump into the air due to the terrible paving.
In Monroe, we pulled into a TT facility called Thunderbird RV Resort which is nestled alongside a river in a nice grove of Douglas fir trees. The campsites are not very far apart but the facility has full hookups and, after merely three tries, I was able to point our dish through a tiny clearing between the trees at a satellite and get TV reception. Due to the short drive from Fall City, we were all situated and set up by 1:00 PM so we called our daughter, Dana, in Mukilteo about 30 miles away and went over there to take her to lunch and see where she lives.
We picked her up at her new place and took her to Diamond Knot, a brewery and pub right on the water next to the ferry landing between Mukilteo and Whidbey Island out in Puget Sound. The prices were not cheap but the food and porter was tip-top. Peggy got an albacore sandwich which actually had a big slab of albacore instead of tuna salad like she received from the lousy fish joint in Newport, OR. I got a superb pizza and we shared some poutine, a Canadian dish which is made from seasoned french fries, cheese curds and brown gravy. The stuff is definitely unhealthy but very tasty.
Dana is contemplating a house purchase in the area but when we offered some suggestions on financing a $500,000 house on a combined income of $6000 a month, she became very nasty about it and started hollering at us and dismissing our ideas outright. She obviously does not need our help and made it abundantly clear we should butt out, which we did, returning to our nifty trailer at Thunderbird.