Apr 15th to 17th - Portland to Richland WA

Apr 15th – Thurs – Portland
We looked after some chores this morning including the blog, email and grocery shopping. About 3 we went back to Cindy’s house with the makings for dinner since she made dinner the last 2 nights and she did have to work again today. Tim was working on a concrete job and didn’t have any work lined up for Terry on the apartment.
We left early as Cindy had to give EllaMae a bath and Terry wanted to dump our tanks in preparation for leaving tomorrow. This RV park is the only one that we have encountered that requires the use of a soft ring in the unthreaded sewer pipe. We did not want to buy a ring and carry it around forever so Terry just hooked up the hose, dumped and put everything away before we were caught.

Apr 16th – Fri – to Richland WA
We waited until after rush hour traffic to leave this morning for an uneventful drive to the TriCities. I had selected an RV park from Trailer Life and found out when we got there that it was changed to KOA and the rates had gone up considerably. We don’t like KOAs much so decided to stay at Horn Rapids RV instead.
We walked around the park and just relaxed. More than half of the sites here are long term residents. Apparently a lot of the people work on the Hanford decommisioning.

Apr 17th – Sat – Richland
Nice lazy morning and then we went to see the salesman (Keith Bennett as Russ Dean Family RV) who sold us our 5th wheel. He did not have anything on the lot that interested us but we spent quite a bit of time with him. We went across the street to his competitor and saw a perfect new rig but didn’t like the price!
We stopped for a couple of items at a WinCo grocery store and ended up buying more than we thought we needed. WinCo is a fairly new chain that we were first introduced to in Spokane and we like the stores.
More walking in the park, TV watching and web surfing filled the remainder of the afternoon & evening.