It seems like it’s been a long time coming for us to get to Washington State, but we finally did. I say finally because I feel like for almost the two and a half years we’ve been together we’ve talked about going to Washington. We’ve dreamed about the idea of moving there possibly and while Michael has actually lived in Washington twice I’d never been here at all. It felt like almost a dream crossing the border to come in to the state.
We didn’t get far in to the state – the Idaho border is about 5 miles away – our real journey into Washington begins on Wednesday 8/3. We have reservations at an Army Corps of Engineers campground in southern central Washington for two weeks. From the looks of the pictures of our site there we’ll have some trees around us. We seem to get antsy if we aren’t around trees and mountains often enough. It’s what’s drawn us to living in the RV and traveling here to the Pacific Northwest.
We woke up pretty early, got the dogs and the RV ready and hit the road by 10 am for Washington State. It was a beautiful drive again with the mountains all around us. This time we hit several 6% grade mountains that we were descending. With our old truck we’d have been nervous wrecks – with our new truck it is like a whole other experience. It felt like we’d just climb one mountain to descend it – with plenty of construction along the way for good measure. Michael says it’s a whole other experience towing the RV through the mountains with the new truck. It seems a bit less stressful for him so that makes me happy always.
We got to Washington just after the 2pm check in and settled in for the night. I made cubed steaks with a mushroom gravy in the foodie. A great dump ingredients in and hit the button recipe. We have a few of those which make having a hot meal on travel days much easier than before.
Tuesday – our full day to do whatever in Spokane we got some groceries topped off and went out to dinner at a restaurant called Tomato Street. When Michael was stationed here they went there occasionally – it was pretty decent food and it was nice having a date night again. I loved going to Fred Meyer – it is WAY MORE than just going to a grocery store. Ive been to Kroger – they are affiliated – a ton in Michigan – but there’s no jewelry store, shoes, clothing departments and full on hardware stores in a Kroger. This was shopping on a whole other level. I actually found a cute pair of shoes that I used some birthday money on. We also took advantage of the fact that KOA has laundry facilities and took the time in between outings to get our laundry caught up again. It was a good prep day – we got a lot done and got to rest as well.
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