THE RV IS CALLING AND WE MUST GO

Nearly three months pass before we can even think of doing any trips in our RV. Staying Safe at Home and all parks and campgrounds being closed was not working in our favor for some Spring adventuring. When parks were eventually allowed open for ‘day use only’ Susan and I jumped at a first opportunity to go somewhere, anywhere. We drove about an hour north of home for a day at Bayview State Park which is right on Padilla Bay and a lovely setting. We parked here for the day and rode our bike to and around Samish Island. We do this route fairly often and always enjoy it.

We stopped for some sights along the way, and watched this ship sail by.

Rural fences seem to attract me.

And anything bicycle always gets my attention.

If we were happy with a one day outing — how about two? A few days later we drove up the Mountain Loop Highway and found an open ‘dispersed camping’ spot right on the Stilly River. This is an area where people can camp free and of course there are no amenities and the sites are very small. It is beautiful in this area and we enjoyed dinner and spending the night here. We had done a short bike ride earlier, and though it was short, it was a delight to be riding in a place other than my neighborhood ;’-).

You know how it is — zero night leads to one night leads to two nights. As more parks and campgrounds were beginning to allow camping, we were soon out for two nights of camping at La Conner. Until sometime in October we have our free membership to Thousand Trails Campgrounds, so took advantage of the one in La Conner. It is the place we stayed and celebrated this last Thanksgiving. 

We did our ride to the Tommy Thompson Trail that leads into Anacortes, but did not have time to go into town (we had our RR zoom meeting later that afternoon).

At the start of the bridge we were entertained by several harbor seals. I tried to get several photos but the lighting and my less than quick view finding hampered getting many. I took a chance and simply clicked the shutter at one point and got at least this photo.

Once home from this trip we began the plan for our current adventure which we are now enjoying. Susan had this great idea too draw a circle on our state map of 100 mile radius from home. Until it is deemed safe, and we are feeling more safe and comfortable to travel further, we plan to explore everything we can within that 100 mile circle. LaConner was before we drew the circle, but can be included in our exploration, so our current adventure here is #2. Great plan for us.

Susan had somehow discovered a private campground a bit south of Tacoma in the town of Mineral WA. That was our destination for the first three nights of this week. We would then continue on to another spot for several more nights — that will be determined as the days progress.

To read the story and see more about it, click the link.. It is a great place that we hope to come back to.

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Elkamp at EASTCREEK is a gem.

The sites are well enough distanced from each other to give privacy, the bathrooms and showers are ‘private’, as in one person at a time, and are cleaned and sanitized several times a day. There are spaces for RVs as well as a few tenters, and when we were here there was only one tenter, and four other RVs. During the week camping is always nice. 

The campground is a forest like setting.

Many old growth trees.

The stream runs through it (I guess that is east creek), but unfortunately no fish in it for Susan to catch. I guess it is more of a “look and release”.

Rather than make this entry any longer and more difficult to post with the limited wifi (my hotspot), I will end this one and write more about our riding around Mineral in my next post.

Stay safe and well my friends.