Saturday, August 14, 2010

Day 78. Carnation, WA

I know, I know: you're asking where the pictures went. Tomorrow.

Tolt-McDonald county park is our new digs. It borders the Snoqualmie River, has a unique campsite layout. There's a large (3 acres?) open grassy area in the middle and the campsites are all pull-throughs, located on the outside of a circular perimeter road. It's surrounded by woods and a 1/4 mile from the river. It's a warm (94) Sunday afternoon and there's a steady parade of day trippers to and from the river, toting chairs, coolers, floating devices.

Yesterday.
That smartphone's doing its best to bring me into the 21st century and notable progress is being made. Today's adventure was downloading several freebie apps (programs) and trying them out. With GPS, the thing always knows your location, allows you to check location-specific weather, travel maps, movie schedules, gas stations, yadda, yadda, yadda. Gotta admit, it's an amazing little widget.

It's 5:15 PM on a warm sunny day at the park. It may be too warm and sunny for the locals, though; 20 minutes ago I heard a loud bang and thought it sounded like a transformer blowout. A few minutes later I went into the EDGE and heard the fridge beeping, meaning it was set on shore power but wasn't getting any. I suspect there was an electrical overload caused by too many folks using A/C. No problem for the EDGE however, just switched the fridge to propane.

And now........extended drum roll, full orchestral crescendo...........the answer to our trivia quiz is. Russia! And the winner is.........nobody! Either the question was just too tough or my faithful readers were too busy enjoying this fine summer weekend to ponder the challenging question at length. That means the prize will be carried over and added to the long list of fabulous prizes already set aside for the next trivia contest, as yet unscheduled.

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