We stopped at a rest area about 10 miles north of Burlington a little after 9:00 to walk Tinker and for Mike to do his walk-around of the RV. The rain had quit by the time we left the rest area.
We drove through Seattle
 |
| From Ferndale to McChord AFB |
and saw the Space Needle
 |
| From Ferndale to McChord AFB |
and the Museum of Flight.
 |
| From Ferndale to McChord AFB |
We arrived at the Bridgeport Road gate to McChord AFB at 11:20. Our Ft. Rucker vehicle registration decals had expired this summer and the security guard wouldn’t let us continue to the FamCamp until we had new decals. Mike got our vehicle registrations and insurance cards and walked back to the Visitor Center next to the gate to get new decals. When we were at Elmendorf AFB we inquired about getting new decals, but they didn’t issue vehicle decals since everyone has to show their ID card to get on base. We didn’t think anymore about having expired decals until we got here.
Mike forgot that he had to scrape off the old decals and turn them in when he went to get the new decals. So Mike came back to the RV and scraped the decals off of the RV and the Vue and then went back to the Visitor Center to get our new decals.
We stopped at the base gas station and got gas in the RV (26.533 gal @ $3.769 a gal) before driving out to Holiday Park FamCamp.
We had decided to stay in the dry-camping area so we could receive satellite TV. We had heard there was no satellite TV reception in the area with hook-ups because of all the trees.
The dry camping area is also the RV storage area. It is a large open field that is surrounded by trees. We found a spot to park and set up the RV. We are paying $5 a day to stay here and we’ll be here for 5 days.
Mike called the Post Office in Lakewood to see if our mail had come in to General Delivery. It turns out that General Delivery mail goes to the main Tacoma Post Office. We had chosen Lakewood because it’s the closest town near here. We normally call the local post office and check to make sure that they receive General Deliver mail, but Mike forgot to call the one in Lakewood to see if they take General Delivery.
The lady at the Lakewood Post Office wasn’t sure what would happen when our mail came in – if it would be sent back to Pensacola or if it would be forwarded to the main Tacoma Post Office. She called us back and told Mike that our mail was at the Tacoma Post Office. Thank Goodness!
We put the Tacoma post office address in our Garmin and drove into Tacoma to pick up our mail.
 |
| From Ferndale to McChord AFB |
The last time we had gotten mail sent to us was when we were in Anchorage a month ago. We got the checks from our insurance company for the RV windshield repair we had done in Whitehorse and for the new receiver hitch we had put on in Haines.
We stopped at the commissary on our way back to the RV to buy groceries. I have been only buying a few groceries up to now because I was waiting to stock up when we got here.
The FamCamp is near the airfield and on the way back to the RV from the commissary, we saw this C-17 cargo plane practicing touch-and-go landings.
 |
| From McChord AFB |
No comments:
Post a Comment