TRIVIA: GUESS WHERE THESE PICTURES ARE FROM
Pulled out of Elma, Washington after visiting the Pyhala families until about noon. Headed up to Port Townsend to catch the ferry, according to the ferry schedule it was leaving at 2:15 and according to Suzie, our arrival time was going to be at 2:06 pm into Port Townsend. By cutting a few corners short and kicking up a little speed on the straightaways I managed to pick up 6 minutes arriving in plenty of time to be one of the last few cars to board the ferry. So our time in Port Townsend was cut short. Whidbey Island has not changed that much, but Oak Harbor is now a city including Wally World. Toured the area before going out to visit Roger and Mary. You would know Mary instantly, she has not aged a day since we last saw her. After our visit, we headed north to Bellingham to we could get an early start on our pre-Canada crossing. Last night we found the "motel from hell", fortunately for me it was one your mother selected. It was terrible, all night I expected the cars on the freeway to come through the room, then the train, then the smell, then the constant drip of water! I was not going to take a chance of hooking up my laptop, we were up and out by 7:30 looking for coffee!
As a word of advice in your future travels, Bellingham is now a good size city, however, do not ever try to buy four studded snow tires or see a veterinarian on Sunday. The few places I did check on tires, Wally World, Costco and Sears they looked me like like I was stupid and did not have my size tires in stock and standard question was "why do you need them studded", "you know they are going to be outlawed next year!" The largest tire dealer on the West Coast is suppose to be open tomorrow, of course all large dealerships close on Sunday. I even hate to think what the vet is going to tell us, "oh, he is a dog, you know they are going to be outlawed next year"! Needless to say, the chores we wanted to do today will be postponed until tomorrow, still hope to be out of town by 1300 and into Canada headed north.
My son in laws will be happy to know that I had enough time to to kill today that I did get an oil change, lube job, fuel filter, antifreeze check, and I have 35 pounds of air in each tire - I may have that same air when I get home if I do not find any new tires.
Tonight we are staying in the LaQuinta Inns and Suites and had dinner at a "Olive Garden", a step up in comparison to last night at the "motel from hell" and IHop. Surprising what you can find in the daylight and are not tired. Hopefully, we will be up the road a piece, somewhere in Canada tomorrow night - if not I will be in a bad enough mood, I will not be blogging! Likely see you sometime this weekend or maybe next week if we decide to take the side trip into the Northwest Territory, I have always wanted to see Great Slave Lake.
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