OK, so let's get this segment started off right - with tuna juice!!
Well, now that we've started things off on a happy note, I'm going to backtrack for a short, unhappy detour - the trip back to the states... Our Vancouver (Surrey, actually) RV park was virtually right on the border - so close that we had to be careful coming and going lest we end up at the border crossing by accident! So that morning, we turned the corner and got in line...and stayed in line for about an hour. Then we were directed to park. Finally border guards came to our rig and told us to remove all our critters to an outdoor kennel they had. Dogs and cats on leashes, we led them to some cages that would hold our dogs OK but certainly not our cats! They would be out and flattened in no time! After unsuccessfully trying to impress the border guards with the difficulty of the situation, we finally ended up having to lock the kitties in the RV closet. All of this so that the guards could go through our RV without animals escaping, etc. The easiest way would've been for us to just hang on to them, but that was NOT allowed! We had to stay in a separate building the whole time! And in that building, there was complete disorganization and a whole lot of (bad) attitude! We were not the only ones who didn't know exactly what we were supposed to do or where to go, and I'm sure we weren't the only ones who were utterly disgusted to be made to feel like vicious criminals for the unforgivable trespass of having certain veggies on board and not remembering about having them, etc.! Not knowing the nationality of the others in the building, I can't say if we were the only ones so completely embarrassed by our own country's border crossing methodology!!!!!!!!! After two hours and a lot of unnecessary harassment, we were pretty infuriated! We will never go through the Blaine, WA, border crossing again!!!!!!!!!!!! At least not south-bound!!!!
OK, now back to our regular programming - and happier scenes!
Like... Happy Halloween!
Just down the road from the Burlington Ford dealership was this cute pumpkin lot.
Halloween ballerina! :)
Grand fall colors! Even if they are just planted and in a parking lot!
Very cool church building!!
Too clever!!
Point & shoots aren't very good for zooming-in! But I still had to give it a go with this bald eagle!
Lots of oil shipments and refineries in Anacortes,
which look kind of cool at night!
And a few weird/interesting houses...
Another foggy (and kind of pretty) beginning to another cold, wet day...
Anacortes introduced us to several things (some of the best clam chowder and fried oysters - well, for Bill, anyways, and some of the worst dreary, cold fall weather,...). At our first Five Guys Burgers and Fries experience, I fell in love with a soft drink machine! This is awesome!!! Just touch your choice on the screen and discover tons more choices - regular, diet, fruity, plain, whatever! What fun!!!
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