-         Today we have to make our way back to Seattle. We check out – just wave and smile, Steve heard s/o say – and park ourselves at the beach again. We leave the bus, which feels kind of strange, and take off, kite and buckets and all…

-         Steve likes the beach all right but looks a little forlorn and not sure what to do with himself after he is finished flying the kite with Jonah.

-         I felt a little uneasy about leaving, having crashed into our neighbor’s Fifth-Wheel…but he never came back out and so Steve decided to ignore the whole incident…I am still impressed by how easily we can get ourselves into trouble by taking just ONE wrong turn. We have a scratch on the right side from I don’t know what in Eugene. Then we have a dent on the left from the tree at Oak Harbor…nothing from the accident with the neighbor…what’s next?

-         After a beautiful day at the beach, sandcastle building and all, we have dinner in Elbee – Steve called it the Love Bus = LB = Elbee J in memory of my Honda Pilot which we used to call the Love Truck – with King Salmon, red mashed potatoes, a beautiful salad…

-         On our way back towards Seattle we stop at a Wal-Mart, which it turns out has a corporate rule that allows any RV to use their parking lots…we are in Auburn, WA at a Supermall…what a strange, strange world, I think to myself as we pull up along another RV…very strange…