220241018 Friday, October 18, 2024. Breaking Camp and Heading Home

220241018 Friday, October 18, 2024. Breaking Camp and Heading Home

The rain continued into the morning so breaking camp required rain gear.  But since we were dry camping with no utilities, this mostly involved retracting the slide, raising the stabilizer jacks, driving off the leveler blocks, and stowing the blocks.  Hitching up the Bronco and putting it into Neutral Tow mode does require some skill and a check list because failure to properly engage the Neutral Tow mode can rapidly destroy the transmission.  But since Ben has done this several times before, it’s mostly a matter of sticking to a checklist.  

We were able to hit the road at 9:30am.  The rain persisted pretty much all day as we headed home.  Traffic was not bad until we got to Federal Way, but we were able to take advantage of car pool lanes and made decent progress.  We did make a final RV dump stop in Montesano and rolled into the Angel of the Winds Casino on “Reserve fuel”.  While is always a little worrisome when the Range changed from a number to “Reserve fuel”, it turned out the reserve is about 4 gallons because the RV took 20.7gal and has a capacity of 24.5gal.  So realistically, it probably translates to 50 miles or so.  We did stretch our legs in the Casino where Janet has found a penny slot machine, and they have nice bathrooms and free soda.

The rain finally let up as we got north of Arlington and we were able tuck the RV back into the barn by 3:30pm.