Sept. 7, 2011 - We started our trip at 10:40 am on Wednesday, Sept. 7. Everything I’ve read online about stress levels rising as two people pack the RV and get things ready to roll is so true. I stayed up until 12:30 am the night before to get things ready, thinking I was going to be ahead of the game. Woke up at 5:30 am the next morning and really thought I was going to be ahead of the game. But no -- I wasn’t ready to go by the time Tom had the Subaru hooked up behind the RV and was ready to roll.
Once we were on the road, though, we both felt the excitement of a road trip in our new RV, hauling our favorite toys - kayaks, bikes, and hiking gear. A woman on the ferry trip from Port Townsend to Whidbey Island commented that we must have won the lottery to have a new RV, new car and new kayaks. We didn’t win the lottery, but we have decided to spend our retirement years following “blue highways” and enjoying all that the road has to offer. (P.S. Our car isn't new. It was just really clean because Tom washed it before we left home.)
By the time we arrived at Howard Miller Steelhead Park in Rockport, WA on the Skagit River, we were ready to relax. It has become our routine to select a site as soon as we arrive at an RV park or campground, register, park the RV, then go off to explore the immediate area. We are right on the Skagit River, a wide, clear, wild and scenic river. Setting out our lawn chairs on the shore of the river, enjoying a glass of wine and beer, it wasn’t long before we saw an eagle flying down the river!
It is so much warmer here than our Olympic peninsula. It didn’t take us long to change into shorts and sandals. I found a large, flat rock along the shore that I could sit on to read my book. Tom also relaxed along the river with a book. The start to the day was hectic and stressful, but the end of the day has been a dream.
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