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Click on the links above to see our "Wok-umentary" of our three month journey living in a bus as our family of five converts the world's first luxury motor home to run on free, waste vegetable oil, and then drive home, cross country on

The Fat Of America

July 20th, 2006
Location: Anacortes to Tacoma/Kent KOA
Day 8

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-         In order for Steve to get work done I decide to take all the kids whale watching! He drops us off at the pier and leaves to go to Starbucks to use their internet.

-         I pack a huge backpack full of snacks and sandwiches and drinks and card games and Band-Aids and diapers…Don’t forget the money!

-         We are the first ones on board and have a nice time exploring the ship for a while. The company has a spotter plane says the captain that guides the ship toward a cluster of whales it knows. It takes us about 2 hours to get to where they are most active today and so all we can do for a while is take pictures of the amazing beauty of the San Juan Islands… expensive but breathtaking…

 
Another day, another bath in the sink.  The girls use traditional shower methods
I had to work all day so Anke took the kids on a whale watching trip.
Oh look.  A Whale.

To think I missed all this excitment.

(sarcasm)

Camping, Adler Style!

Here Jonah and I are roughing it as it is us against nature, deep in the woods, we camp in the wilderness. 

Pass the popcorn.

Just for the record, we don't have TV at our house.  We had cable with all the channels, but for years we noticed that nothing was on.  We were not using it, and we decided to have it completly removed from our house.  We quit the drug! 

In Elbee, TV is a special treat - like drugs can often be!

Here is what I did that night!  Will that buff out?

 Chris found a guy who would come and paint the scratch I put in Elbee the first night I had her.  It cost me $603, and they did a great job painting across several different colored  stripes.  Life's irony would have it that it was this night, when we left Seattle in a fury, that we smashed the batter doors and put thousands of dollars of damage in Elbee on the awful, Dawn of The Dead, mountain  trailer park.