We arrived in Seattle at 11:30 PM and headed straight for our hotel to get some sleep. The next day we picked up our rental car and headed to Jeanna, Evan and our Granddaughter Jolie’s house. Jolie has started walking since the last time we saw her in April. You can sure tell how much she loves getting around on her own. We got a chance to attend one of Jolie’s swim lessons and watch her go completely under water for the first time. Then we headed to Chelan Falls to spend the 4th of July weekend with the Axtman clan. We had an awesome weekend hanging out with Evan’s family on the river where we enjoyed the view, boat rides, and their new pool. We are so appreciative of Ryan and Marci always welcoming us into their home and making us feel like part of the family. There was a little excitement one day while we were sitting by the pool…A paraglider landed across the street from the house after clipping a power line on the way down. She was fine, just didn’t make it to the landing place at the park. We also got a chance to visit a couple wineries in Chelan, Cairdeas and Amos Rome. Both had excellent views of Lake Chelan and great wine. At Cairdeas, they age their wine in concrete vats, a process we had never heard of before.

Next, we headed to Kitsap County. They didn’ t know what hit ’em! We stayed at Leon and Vicki’s house. It was so nice of them to put us up, while we were back in Kitsap. We caught up on all of our appointments; haircut (Kim not David, hahaha), Kim eyebrow wax, Kim dentist, Both, annual physicals/bloodwork, mammogram (Kim not David, LOL), Kim Chiropractor. We got in lots of pickleball with all the people we used to play with. We had a meet up with old friends at our favorite winery, State 42, in Poulsbo and a nice dinner out afterwards.

The next weekend David, Jenna, and Jolie flew to Boise for a get together with David’s family. Jolie got to finally meet a lot of her Boise/Vacaville relatives and they all had a great time. Thanks to Keith and Diane for hosting a BBQ. That same weekend, Kim drove down to Portland to see her daughter, Hailey. They went to a very large street fair and went out to dinner the first day. Kim also got to watch Hailey play soccer that night. Go Hailey! Kim chickened out of going to Hot Pilates, but joined online for slightly cooler pilates, where she could see Hailey the entire time. It is always great to have one-on-one time with her.

We spent our last week in Kitsap getting together with friends and playing lots of pickleball. We had a lot of fun at a marina party, with all the pickleball friends. Thanks to Sally and Fleeta for hosting on their boats! Just like old times! Had another meet up with friends at Rainy Daze in Poulsbo. It was nice to see Brownsville folks, SWFPAC folks and other awesome friends there! Then we had three lunch dates with friends, Sue and Dave, Anne and Dave, and Deana. Kim’s long-lost friend, Jane was gracious enough to have us over for dinner with great food, wine and conversation. We were also lucky enough to spend an intimate singer/songwriter evening with Matt and Amy! Thanks Tammy and Glen for hooking us up! It was great to see Kim/Kevin and Rick/Tangy for a BBQ at the lake. Each couple just got a new RV and we got to see both of them. Lots of great storage ideas. It was so nice to be back with friends in Kitsap. Now you all just need to come see us on the road. We really can’t thank Leon and Vicki enough for letting us stay with them.

Then we got back on a plane at 12:30 AM and headed back to our home on wheels. We were quickly reminded why we never take redeye flights… we were so tired after doing that. We got back to the RV right at our scheduled pickup time and it was not ready. We ended up getting a hotel for the night and then returned the next day to get the RV. Still not done, so the manager took us out to lunch while we waited. We didn’t get out of there until after 4:00 pm and headed straight for the Elkhart campground to put our home back together. Well… our new shower door leaked all over the floor the first night. It turns out you do have to caulk that bottom track. So, we fixed that the next day ourselves. Then after doing some more checks, we discovered three of our six wheels were loose. They did not tighten the bearings down properly. We had them come to the RV park the next day and fix that problem. Overall, it was not a great experience getting the work done at Certified RV. We do understand their staffing challenges, but they really need to get better at timeframes and checking their work. In the future we are going to try and do as much as we can ourselves. Like the old saying…If you want something done right, do it yourself!

We forgot what a pain flying is…airport security, packing, delays, and thousands of people in the airports. Although, we did run into a former co-worker in Dallas/Fort Worth. We have developed a real love for traveling around this country in our house on wheels. We are now off to Ohio and then headed to New England for the fall. Don’t forget to check out our travel plans page and see if we are going to be anywhere you want to visit. We changed our comment settings, the log in prompt will still come up, just skip the log in and add a comment.

No weird or crazy things for this post. There might have been some in Kitsap County, but everything seemed normal to us. 😉