Thousand Trails Birch Bay RV Resort – Blaine, Washington

Yesterday I drove the motorhome the 60 miles from La Conner to Blaine, Washington. The motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails Birch Bay RV Resort. We are here for a two-week stay. This location marks the furthest northern point for the motorhome during our planned 2014 travels. A mere four miles from the Canadian Border. In the below Google Earth image, X marks our location and BI represents Bellingham International Airport 17 miles to the south where I met Mary yesterday afternoon…

As always you may left click upon an image to see an enlarged view and then click once again to see an even larger view…

Most of yesterday’s travels was on Interstate Highway 5…

Entering the campground. We were last here in 2011…

Our parking spot…

The usual dinette window photo…

Mary was hungry when we arrived so we went to Via Bistro & Cafe right on Birch Bay for a nice meal…

The restaurant had lots of nice nautical paintings…

It was low tide when I took this photo for a small concrete dock right in front of our table. At high tide the waters return to my standing spot…

I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE PHOTOS.

Yesterday was a sunny at 76 degrees. Forecast for today is sunny and 76 degrees.

Enjoying nice weather is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!

The red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Washington. You may double left-click the map to make it larger…

Enjoying 65-75 degree temperatures with low humidity most of the year is a primary joy in the RVing lifestyle!

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”…Albert Einstein

On October 27, 2012, I created a two-minute video titled America The Beautiful. The music America The Beautiful is by Christopher W. French. The photos, which I randomly selected, are from the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia (not shown in that order)…are mine. Yup, That’s me standing in front of the Post Office in Luckenbach, Texas…Y’all!

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Believe It Or Not, An Edsel Motorhome!

Here’s another unusual RV story…
http://weirdrvs.rvtravel.com/2011/06/believe-it-or-not-edsel-motorhome.html

In other news…

We are still at Thousand Trails RV Resort in Birch Bay, Washington. Yesterday was sunny and 70 degrees. We both worked on miscellaneous projects and also did some reading. Another nice day!

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Thousand Trails RV Resort, Birch Bay, Washington

We are currently camped at Thousand Trails RV Resort in Birch Bay, Washington. the campground is only about 25% occupied, so it’s really nice and peaceful.

There are 195 full hook-up sites…

The sun has finally come out and it was a nice 65 degrees yesterday…forecast is for 70 degrees today. I’m a happy camper!

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Birch Bay, Washington

Yesterday Mary and I drove about 150 miles to Birch Bay, Washington. The drive was very intense with lots of traffic, and lots of rain…very heavy at times.

Here we are on U.S. Highway 405…the by-pass around downtown Seattle at 10:00 AM…

The rain was intense at times…

However, once we got north Everett, the skies brightened up and the rain stopped. I just love this part of Washington. The scenery is beautiful… the air is fresh and clean…the people are friendly and it seldom gets to hot or cold.

Our camping site is shown as TT. We are less than five miles from the Canadian Border and less than 20 miles from downtown Bellingham.

The below photo…

comes from this Wikipedia informational link where you can read all about Birch Bay…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_Bay,_Washington

The average summer temperature in Birch Bay is 72 degrees. The Weather Wimp (that’s Mary’s nickname for me) says…Just right! I get grumpy if the temperature gets below 65 or above 75. Tomorrow’s forecast is for 66 and the next day and for the next several days is 72! I’m a happy camper!

We expect to be here for nine days.

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Re-meet my good friends Aaron & CeeCee

We first met in Quartzsite, AZ in January, 1997 under some unusual circumstances…but, that’s a story for another time. We have been good friends since that time. Like most of my friends, I only get to see them occasionally due to my mobile lifestyle. We last crossed paths during the summer of 2007 in Birch Bay, WA. Each January through March they park their RV in Mesa, AZ where they enjoy dancing most every day.

CeeCee, Aaron and their dog, Shaka.

Please excuse the poor photo…lots of harsh background from the Arizona Sun. Did I mention it was 70 degrees yesterday?

They arrived on Sunday and that afternoon Aaron helped me install a new larger hard drive in my computer. He’s kinda a computer geek. Yesterday he help me install three new belts on my Bronco II engine which is a two-person job.

CeeCee loves cook. Sunday was a delicious shrimp dinner and last night we had lobster!

The best we can determine, we will probably not cross paths again until about May, 2011. That’s the only downside to a full-timing RV lifestyle…you just don’t get to see your good friends often enough!

All original material Copyright – Jim Jaillet 2010
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