Belfair State Park. Seattle, WA

Wednesday we made the quick 190 mile drive from McMinnville, OR northwest up to Belfair, WA. The tiny city of Belfair is just west of Seattle, across the bay. Two couples from our 2005 Full-Timer graduating class are camp hosting here. Garry and Jenny, originally from Wisconsin and Ken and Sandy, originally from North Carolina, are sharing the duties here for a couple of months. We have not seen them since Quartzsite in February so we have a lot to catch up on!

This is the first time in a long time we have stayed in a state park. Most of the state parks out here were built in the 50’s when coaches were quite a bit shorter then 40’. Belfair has upgraded one loop that can handle rigs over 35’ with full hook ups. We like state parks since it really feels like “camping”. Surrounded by trees, animals and the smell of the campfire, you gotta love it! The park also has a very “Northern Michigan” feel to it, which makes us feel right at home.

We spent Wednesday evening trading travel and adventure stores with everyone over wine and cheese for appetizers and burgers and dogs and homemade potato salad for dinner. We finished up the evening with a great campfire.

Thursday, Garry and Jenny had the day off from their hosting duties. They carted us around for the day. We started out with breakfast at the Airport diner. It was a great little place right next to the runway of the local airport with, not surprisingly, a plane motif. We drove up to Paulsboro and checked out a few wineries, had some lunch, stopped at the local market to pick up some supplies. It doesn’t sound like a lot, but we didn’t get back to the campground till after 5pm!

Friday, Laura and I will be on our own as the others will be doing their hosting duties. We plan to head over to Seattle for the day. We’ll have to be back by 6pm to join our host for a big fish fry they are planning!

We are really roughing it in Belfair. There’s no cable or internet available (yeah, feel sorry for us :() so blog updates will be somewhat sporadic, starting with one! We have to blog in a word document, go into town and update from the library or coffee shop.

-Rich-