Monday, July 16 – KOA Seattle/Tacoma, Kent WA 98032

After a nice relaxing morning and yet another load of laundry we break camp to get closer towards Seattle so we don’t have so far to drive tomorrow morning to catch our cruise to Alaska.  We have booked parking for the motorhome right at the cruise terminal so hope that works out as expected.  Our booking time to board is between 11.30 and 12, might as well enjoy as much of shiplife as we can and the parking opens up about 10.30am although I guess we have to wait until the ship and the carpark empties out before we can move in.

Nearly half way to Kent and after we have finished our travel mugs of coffee we stop at a Walmart Pharmacy for damage control.  The pharmacist, not of this country, didn’t know what spray on plastic skin is and just points me in the direction of the band aids.  Might need something more methinks.  Anyway we scan the shelves and get some Neosporin cream (US version of Savlon?), some waterproof dressings and some New Skin – liquid bandage spray.  Now we’re talking!

Along the I5 we are slowed down by road works for 20 minutes or so - it’s a bit hair raising driving alongside an extra wide load with a brand new pleasure boat on one side  and another 18 wheeler on the other side but it was actually quite a nice drive.

It was kind of this truck to drive in front of us, I could see what was coming up from behind on both sides for a while.

Getting all arty!

The Washington State road signs show the silhouette of George Washington, pretty cute hah?  Should he have done something with his hair?

We drive through a nice modern suburb a mile away from the KOA

Lovely backdrop

We pull into our site, 29, it’s on a corner and it is really only just long enough for us.   Kim borrows a chair to put on road hopefully protecting our mirrors from being sideswiped should someone big come down Ellensburg.

Handy chair protecting our corner

We don’t have much shade and it’s pretty warm, 30C+ - we have the air on inside.

I’ve done a preliminary pack, we leave on our cruise tomorrow – yay!  Seems plain wrong to be packing winter type clothes in this heat but I’m not sure what to expect so covering all bases.

I am not taking the laptop so you won’t see any blogs for a week, but I will take notes and fill you all in when we get back to civilisation.  And with lots of photos too. Take care everyone!