If you remember, I had mentioned that Kathy was planning to bake an apple pie with the apples we bought in Washington. Well, there it is!! Isn't it a thing of beauty? And was it delicious!!
OK, back to business. Tuesday, September 24. Cloudy and cool today. We are ready to leave the Wenatchee River County Park for the Pacific Coast. However, there's one more thing that I just had to do before we left....
This is a picture of the tow load our neighbors are pulling! I just HAD to take this picture. I don't know how in hell he plans on getting that boat off of the SUV, or how he even got it up there in the first place. Jeez! And I thought I had it tough towing the car! He can't even use his SUV unless he gets the boat down first.
OK! Back to the trip. We left the campground not sure of our next destination. We knew that we wanted to go to Olympic National Forest, but we also wanted to try and do a Whale Watch while we were on the coast. We had read that there were whale-watching tours out of Anacortes (pronounced anna-COOR-tis), which is about 85 miles north of Seattle. Since it would be easier to go further north, and then travel south, we decided to head for Anacortes. The next dilemma was - do we go south to I-90, or do we continue west on Rt. 2? We let the GPS choose, and she chose the most direct route, Rt. 2 West. OK! The trip, itself, was quite uneventful, except for the time we decided to stop for fuel before we reached our destination. We saw lots of stations which sold diesel fuel, but they were all on the other side of the highway. Finally, when we reached the town of Monroe, WA, we saw a station located on OUR side to the highway, so we decided to stop. Yeah, right! Apparently, these stations were never designed with the thought that people in MOTOR HOMES might want to fuel up in them!!! After turning off the highway, we realized that there was no entry to the station from the road we had turned onto. Great!! Now I have to find a place to turn around. OK, I'm turned around - now, how do I get into the station to fuel up? Well, as it turned out, there was no way for a motor home to get into, or out of that station, so we found our way back to the highway and continued on to Anacortes. I still had about 5/8 of a tank of fuel, so we weren't in any trouble.
We arrived at the campground in Anacortes around 3PM and got set up. After a quick snack, we headed into the town of Anacortes to book a whale-waching tour. The tour leaves tomorrow at noon, and returns about 5:30PM. We were told that today's tour saw 3 pods of whales, so we are hopeful that tomorrow will be just as successful. After booking the tour, we stopped at the Visitor's Center to get some information about getting a GREAT seafood dinner. The lady at the counter pointed out a menu for the restaurant she would recommend, so I picked it up and began to peruse the bill of fare. WOW! If we wanted Halibut (which we did), the cheapest dish was $24.95! Our next question to the lady was "Where can we buy FRESH fish for dinner?" So, we went off to the market and bought halibut fillets and sea scallops, which we brought back to the motor home and I cooked them on the grill. In a word, D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!! Kathy marinated them first, then cooked some potatoes, which were mashed with garlic, a nice white wine, and a great salad - mmmmmm, much better than paying about $80 - $100 for dinner at that restaurant. Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention that we found a white wine which rivals Tisdale! It's called Oak Leaf, and it goes for $2.97/bottle (750ml). We found it at Wal-Mart, but I guess it can be had in other places. We bought out the supply of it at the Wal-mart we found it at, and when we stopped at another Wal-mart, they were OUT of it!! See, it really is a good deal!
Stay tuned for the report on the whale-watching tour. The whales we hope to see are Orcas, or, as they are more affectionately known, KILLER WHALES!!! Yikes!
Here's the link to the web album for today - not too many pictures, but wait 'til tomorrow!
http://picasaweb.google.com/cbenoitiii/TheTripTravelingToThePacificCoastDay23?authkey=Fa445R427U4#
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