Burlington, WA

There are two towns that are just about 12 or so miles north and east of La Conner – Burlington and Mt Vernon. We were told that Burlington has all the big box stores so we wanted to check out the town and see how it compared to other towns in the area. We were also told that the nearest Costco was there so that was our initial destination. That was easy to locate – right off of I-5 in Burlington. The main thing we were after at Costco was some fresh strawberries and we found those. Burlington also has an Outlet Mall so we drove around that to check out the stores in that Mall. There is also another Mall with all the stores you would expect – Macy’s, JC Penney, Sears, etc. – not more than a half mile from the Outlets so Burlington is definitely the place to go if you want to shop in this area.

Since it was raining almost the entire day, there wasn’t much else to do except go back to the rig and hang out. We spent time at the Family Lodge where the Wi-Fi is located and Josie did some exercises in the fitness room while I did my usual computer stuff. We took a drive across the street to check out the storage area where we have a reservation to keep our fifth wheel for the week we will be back east to visit Patty and the kids the first week in May. That is a very inexpensive solution for our fifth wheel while we are gone – it will only cost $12.95 for the week. The fact that we will also have to store the truck with the rig results in another charge, but it is still the best deal in town. Even though it is the best deal around, we are considering other options since the inconveniences at this place are beginning to wear us down. There must be a better solution  than this one for the rest of our time in WA. We'll see.

We’ll take our usual morning trip to the Family lodge so I can post this entry and Josie will do some laundry. Maybe we both will get to exercise today in the fitness room. It makes a difference for us when we exercise so we like to try and get that done whenever we can. No trips are planned except we will select our site for storing the fifth wheel today and have all that paperwork completed for our transfer into storage - if we decide to go that route. We are also trying to finalize our plans for the weekend which include a visit with our other grandson, Justin, on Saturday. He is living in Marysville which is only a short trip down I-5. We are looking forward to that visit…