Friday, July 22, 2022- SeaTac and Kent to see family and friends.
27427 miles on odometer. Departed home with Ben, Janet and Price on board. Refueled at River Rock Fuel and Tobacco in Arlington. 27477 miles on odometer, 10.689 gal @ $5.699/gal. DEF light came on heading south through Arlington. Fortunately, we have a spare DEF container stashed in the outside storage closet that we bought in Oregon. We picked up Chiang’s Gourmet take out food and dropped off 12 frozen whole crab for Chiang’s Gourmet staff in North Seattle.
Drove to Cedarbrook Lodge near Angle Lake in Sea-Tac to pick up Janet's sister Terri and her husband John who have arrived for a combination of hiking in the North Cascades with friends and a Wonderland Trail mega hike event. Drove to Tyee High School to have late lunch in parking lot with Chiang’s take out. We ran the slide out after parking in the shade of some trees.
Janet, Terri and John toured the high school grounds. Drove to Angle Lake Park and dropped off Janet, Terri and John. Ben and Price parked RV at empty Covid Test facility 1/4mi south of Angle Lake park and watched evening news on TV. Picked up Janet, Terri and John and dropped T&J back at Cedarbrook Lodge at 7pm.
Drove to Sea-Tac Cellular lot to wait for John’s flight to arrive but his flight ended up delayed by over 3 hrs from 7:15PM to 10:15pm. The cellular lot became very busy, so we moved RV back to the empty Covid Test facility where we could have boondocked if we wanted to- ran out the slide and watched TV. Ben refilled the DEF reservoir with DEF stored on board. We picked up our son John at 11pm, encountering terrible traffic at the Sea-Tac Terminal approach- it took 45 minutes to drive the 2 miles from the airport entrance to the departures lanes to pick up John.
Drove to Janet's high school friend Joey’s house in Kent to visit and celebrate her birthday. Joey served tomato salad and roll ups, while we had brought down a Costco birthday cake for her.
She's a night owl who likes to stay up until 3am and sleeps in until early afternoon every day. She had lamented that her mail box was broken and how multiple attempts by multiple neighbors and friends had failed to fix the broken latch despite purchasing replacement parts. We boondocked in front of her house on the curb. It was fairly level and proved to be quiet and comfortable. The temperatures were in the lower 60's overnight. John slept in the cab-over while Price slept on the dinette.
