Arcatapet.net travels - Northwest 9/2002

Pacific Northwest September 17-30, 2002

This fall trip to Vancouver, BC, was planned around a get-together with other online RVers at Deception Pass, at the north end of Whidbey Island. Tuesday we traveled to Eugene, Oregon, where we spent two nights at Deerwood RV Park a new park about 5 miles south of town.

Wednesday we had the coach at Kaiser Brake in Eugene for some adjustments to the suspension. While that was happening, we went up to the Monaco plant and took the tour of the Safari production. We had taken the tour during our previous Oregon trip, but that was a rather rushed job as it started very late. Today we were the only ones on the tour, so we got to linger wherever we wanted to see more. We got to see one of the first 2003 Saharas with a King bed, and that is something we will definitely get if/when we ever order a new coach!

Thursday we traveled to Centralia, Washington where we spent a night at Midway RV Park.

Friday we traveled to Deception Pass State Park on Whidbey Island for a gathering of news-groupies from rec.outdoors.rv-travel known as PNWCO4. We met a number of fellow RVers that we have only previously met in the online world.

Rick shows Ben some really big bugs.	BD cooks up a mess of French Toast.	Rick and Chris with many pounds of bacon.	Lots of digital photographers.	Seems like everyone was taking pictures.
A breakfast panorama.
Holly got to swim for about 50 retrieves in Cranberry Lake.	The campground area.	Rick and Chris' Class B.
Some pictures of the Saturday potluck.
Ben enjoying his campfire.	One of the park's furry critters.

Click here for a page of PNWCO4 faces.

Monday we crossed into Canada, staying at the Burnaby Cariboo RV Park for 4 days. Because the particular satellite we are connected to for our internet service has a very poor signal in the extreme northwest, we did not have an internet connection at either Deception Pass or in B.C. That area is the only "hole" in the coverage for this particular satellite, and it has the best US coverage overall, so we will just have to live with the loss of signal when we travel north of Seattle.

Burnaby Cariboo RV Park.	Narrow concrete pads, but with hedges between each site.	The museum of anthropology at the U of BC.		The extensive gardens at Queen Elizabeth Park.
	Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park.	A Scarlet Ibis in the walk-through Amazon Jungle.	One of the aquarium's Beluga females, Aurora, with her calf which was born on July 20th.	A Sea Lion waiting to be fed.
Totem Poles in Stanley Park.	Vancouver from Stanley Park.	A panorama of Vancouver from Stanley Park.
Cruise ship Ocean Princess, with the Vancouver Lookout at the right.	A seaplane taking off.	Cruise ship Carnival Spirit, seen from the Vancouver Lookout.	East along the busy Port of Vancouver waterfront.	Looking Southeast, with Burnaby in the distance.
South, with the hockey and football stadiums in the foreground.	Looking Southwest.	Looking West at downtown Vancouver.	Northwest to Stanley Park, with Lion's Gate Bridge in the upper-right.	Gas Town, an old part of Vancouver.
A steam powered clock in Gas Town.	Fort Langley is an old Hudson's Bay trading post east of Vancouver.	The proclamation creating the province of BC was read at Fort Langley.