Packing was a mission, we'd accumulated so much whilst being in whistler it didn't even come close to fitting into our backpacks! We tried to downsize by storing, donating and throwing out so we could fit everything we thought we were going to need (and a bunch of stuff we might want) into the car..our new home! After saying a very 'sad' good bye to Brio room 409 and checking out of house, we were on our way!
After a few stops along to take photos, stock up on necessities and work out where we were going we hit the boarder. To date, our us/Canada border crossings have been eventful and this one was certainly no different. (.. we will release further details to those as requested) but we made it over and in and our first stop was Wenberg state park, just north of seattle. It was a nice quiet little spot down by a lake and it was so super quiet! After what had felt like a massive day cleaning, packing and driving we were glad to finally be able to rest our heads and slept surprisingly well for the first of many nights in the back of the car! ..we didn't make the most of the showering facilities available at the camp ground as it was only day 2 and we didn't smell that bad yet..but maybe we should've if we had known it would be a while before we saw any showers (or even warm water)again..
Day 2 once again bought good weather and after packing into the car and grabbing a coffee from the nearest gas station we were on the road again! (Please don't think anything less of me mum, it doesn't taste that bad and still gives us the kick we need to do our daily activities :) ) First stop was Tacoma, where we were hoping for a bit of an engineering hit in driving across the Tacoma narrows bridge; hopefully without it falling!! We drove around the town a bit and down to the port where there were some pretty huge navy ships and some pretty scenery! The next stop was to be mt rainier national park but after a conversation with the checkout chick at a Safeway just outfit Tacoma and checking the national park status online (sitting indiscreetly in a maccas using their wifi's) we learned that without chains on the car we wouldn't be allowed into the park.. We hadn't even thought about the snow!! We didn't let it dampen our spirits and instead detoured to Olympic national park.
We stopped in Port Angeles and after a picnic dinner at the pier we spent our first night in a Walmart carpark!! What a night it was too..we got free hot water to do the dishes in the car park, the store was open 24 hours so there was always toilets available, we did a bit of late night shopping en route to cleaning our teeth and saw all the interesting people who shop at Walmart at the weirdest hours of the day !! Rhys even had some entertainment while waiting for me to clean my teeth in the morning as he watched a conversation between the checkout chick and a 'true american'. the guy had icing sugar on his face from eating donuts and the lady politely told him so only to be answered with i 'don't care that anyone knows I ate a powered donut; I'm a proud American!' Way better entertainment than the morning news!!
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