Quiet day in Chehalis

It was a rainy day, so we elected to take it easy and mainly stay around the bus. Dwayne did make a trip to the post office to mail the oil sample that we took from the bus after driving yesterday (10K miles on the oil). He also tried to mail the used batteries from the tire minders as we had a maintenance agreement with the company to supply free batteries for three years (the third year is up this week)... but the post office had changed their rules and would not accept lithium batteries for shipment, so he was not able to ship them. We've decided we are probably better off just purchasing batteries from Amazon Prime after we looked at the cost of batteries versus shipping costs.

One of the Bluebird friends that we met in North Dakota, Lee, had shared a package of his favorite gravy mix with us when we were in Casper. Since we're now at a point in our diet where we can have breads, we decided to have biscuits and gravy this morning - not really on the "diet", but we did some additional walking today to make up for it - and they were very delicious!

Our campsite here at Chehalis. We have full hookups with 30A electric (so we need to think about which things we have turned on at the same time).

There is a hedge on the driver's side of the bus, and although there is no foliage separation between us and the rig next to us on the passenger side, it is far enough away that we can park the Jeep and still have a bit of space.

We walked around the campground a little this evening (adding some exercise to the biscuits and gravy from this morning!) - it is a nice campground - most of the spots are separated from each other by trees or hedges. It is a bit chilly (high in low 60s today) and rainy, but good for getting some tasks completed around the bus.

For the past several weeks, we've been traveling more in "vacation mode" - the type of travel we would have done when we were working - get somewhere, see all there is to see, going, going, going all the time. We've adopted that because we had been wanting to try to stay at all the Thousand Trails campgrounds down the west coast, but... we decided to get input from some other sources and eliminate the campgrounds that have poor Verizon service (our "entertainment" is primarily from the web, so we like to have good data service via our Verizon MiFi device) - and stay longer at the ones that remained on the list. So.. after this stay, the plan is to do 1 week stays instead of 3-4 days, which should give us less "vacation mode" travel. Just trying to find the balance!