Friday, August 19; Leaving Sequim

We wanted to get an early start from the Rainbow’s End RV Park, but first we had to dump the wastewater out of the tanks as we didn’t have a sewer hookup for 4 days. The black (toilet) take was sure full, so when I pulled the lever to dump, I expected a “whoosh” sound, but nothing. It was clogged! I had to drive the trailer around the block 4 times in order to “slosh” the tank and loosen it up. We finally got off at noon and headed to Spokane. We had to turn around at one point when we realized that the Garmin GPS was trying to take us across on a ferry, so we had to divert to a long bridge crossing. When we got on the bridge, the traffic was stopped. At first, we thought it was an accident, but after getting out of the truck with the binoculars, I looked towards the other end of the bridge and saw a draw bridge section, but no big boat. We finally realized that we were waiting for a couple of sail pleasure boats to go through. We were amazed that they stopped traffic for so long for a couple of sailboats. You would think they could have built the bridge a tad higher for small boats to get under.

View from the bridge while we were waiting for the sail boats

As we drove further and further east towards Spokane, it got more and more treeless and drier. Jan had made reservations at an RV Park and Motel. What!? When we got there, we found out that we had to drive the trailer down a narrow driveway between the 2 rows of motel rooms and then through a narrow passageway to get to the back where the RV Park was. I got through fine, but the manager’s wife pointed out some roof damage done by another RV driver who wasn’t so careful. There was a classic car show in town that weekend, so there were classic cars parked all over the place.