Last time I wrote we were staying in Marblemount  enjoying the beauty of the North Cascade Mountains.  Alpine RV Park is low key while we are there, with the busiest night being September 4, Sunday of the Labor Day week end.  That night there are 10 RV’s there and 5 tent campers.  Two of the RV’s belong to the camp hosts, and 3 are permanent residents, or at least semi permanent.

Labor Day, September 5, we pack up, hook up and travel on.  Our drive today is only 80+ miles to Bothell, about 20 miles northeast of Seattle, where I plan to stay a couple weeks and visit with my son Brian and daughter-in-law Sharon.   We stop at the Walmart at Arlington where Joy and Shiloh have a potty break and stretch their legs.  After they are comfy back in JR, I do some shopping.

We roll into Lake Pleasant RV Park in the very early afternoon.  This is a large and busy RV Park, and when I reserved my spot a month or so ago, this was the first day they had an availability for me.  I am assigned a sweet little pull through site with a nice lake view.

Our site.

Our view.

Lake pleasant comes complete with ducks, geese and frogs.  (Or are they toads?  I don’t know but I know when I approach the lakeside they squeak and hop into the water.)

See the frog/toad in the middle of the picture?

Geese on the grass.

Ducks under the willows.

Even though the RV park if full with over 200 sites, at our little spot at least, the feeling is peaceful and it’s quiet.  Because they are one of the few nice RV parks close to Seattle, at least to the north, they are in a position to charge mucho.  It’s $44 a night, and no discounts that I can come up with.  but it feels good here and I would stay here again.

Another thing nice about this park is that there are trails all around it.  Just steps from my door, it feels like we are deep in the woods.

On the trail.

A view of the campground from a hill.

Still on the trail…

There is a Safeway across the street, along with a place to get a haircut.  I make a hair appointment because the cut I got just a week ago is….not so good.  Actually the lady did a really good job and shaped it really well but the style looked terrible on me and I began hacking on it….similar to what I did when I was 2 years old and got a hold of a pair of scissors. I got the overall shape I wanted but I can’t even tell you how badly I hacked it up!  I have pictures but I won’t subject you to them.  🙂  After this second appointment I’m much happier with the cut.  It’s quite short by necessity….oh well, it will grow.

Brian, Sharon and I do a lot of low key visiting, and Friday Sharon and I go to a group of shops called Country Village.  It’s a group of small stores and boutiques, and it happens that on Fridays there is also a small Farmers Market there.

All I buy at the market are 2 tomatoes, but we enjoy walking around the area.

One of the little shops sells quilt fabric, and despite having worked in a large fabric store years ago,  (BN…Before Nursing) I have never seen so much quilt fabric together in one place.

This is just some of it:

How does one go about making a choice here???

One week of my time here is almost over and I don’t know where I’m going next, but that’s part of the beauty of this lifestyle, isn’t it?