Another
beautiful day in Paradise, sun is shining although not warmed up yet. By the time we get on the road though it is a
pleasant 20 C.
We have to drive
back south to get across the water to the east side of Seattle but our first stop is the
BassPro shop at Tacoma. These are really
cool sports stores, they are also most likely a taxidermist's retirement fund, lots and
lots of stuffed wildlife in the entrance foyer and around the walls - elk,
deer and moose, bison, bear, beavers, plus birds and fish. I guess if the
animal is already dead it is a good thing to recycle them, I enjoyed looking at
them anyway. Oh, they also have a huge aquarium with live fish obviously.
So you can
buy a Humminbird depth sounder here for $299, (or a huge fancy 12” screen one
for $2,600) anyway the same price as we saw in Eugene so we might as well buy it in Oregon where there is no sales tax. You
can buy a brand new flat bottom party boat here from between $20,000 to $48,000 and
a ready to go fibreglass runabout with a 150 Merc on the back from around
US$30k. A great place to spend an hour
or so dreaming (they also sell women's clothes and shoes).
We haven’t
booked anything for tonight so decide to wander up to Everett and check out the
Boeing factory anyway. We arrive about
3.30 pm and find all tours are booked out today and first available tour is
3.30 pm tomorrow so we get our tickets for then and spend an hour or so looking
through the exhibits. It’s is Boeings
100th birthday this year – Happy Birthday Boeing! We see an Air NZ plane on the tarmac, not
sure if it was new or there for service etc.
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| Kim the Pilot! |
It’s after
5pm so we take our leave and drop in at the first RV Park we see, Lakeside RV
Park and they can take us for tonight. The
lake is a man made fishing lake, you buy a licence which entitles you to 5
fish! It’s a busy park and there are
lots of comings,not many goings to there is lots to watch. Kim helps the guy two along get into his site,
don’t think he has backed a trailer before.
Another new BFF!
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