Sat 18 April Day 97

Cooler in the morning as we head north, but nice & sunny

I was up, had breakfast & got ready to go to the 2e tournament at Justin’s in Auburn.  It is only about 10-15 minutes from the casino. Sheila stayed to gamble & wander around the casino.  She found a $1.00 Blackjack table to try, which means she had fun without losing too much.  I played 4 rounds of 2e & lost them all by a wide margin.

 Then I headed back to the RV, arriving about 3:15.  Sheila had made a sandwich for me that was really good; I thought she had bought it at the casino. We hooked up the car & headed out of Muckleshoot Casino at 40822 @ 4:05.  We did hit some slow busy areas getting through Seattle but we kept moving, at a slow pace, but moving..  We saw another accident aftermath only this time I doubt there were any injuries.  A southbound moving van had caught fire on the inside of the cargo area.  There were 2 fire trucks, lots of foam on the ground and the truck was gutted at the centre of the cargo area and almost to the cab & the tail gate. It was backing up southbound traffic on the 3 lane I 405 and I clocked it and the jam went back about 9 miles to where cars were approaching the stopped cars & slowing up.

 We arrived @ Camping World about 6:15 @ 40914.  We drove in but it was jammed full at the back electrical area.  We were talking to one of the Camping World patrol guys and he said that the service bays aren’t open tomorrow as it’s Sunday and all the big entrance doors have outside power & water so why not park there, so we did.  We had to unhook the car to back up to the doors but that worked fine as we were going to Fred Meyers for their internet connection anyway. We had a supper at Fred Myers, gassed up the Focus and returned to the RV for the evening.

Distance – 92 miles – on road time – 2 hours 10 minutes