A Walk on the Boardwalk

Tomorrow we are getting new carpet installed at our park model cabin in the Safari Park in Ilwaco, WA.  The hookups for the motorhome are in and paid for, and are working great.  It's nice to be able to stay in our motorhome while we get the cabin ready.  Next week the mattress arrives, and the week after that the refrigerator gets installed.  Things move slowly here at the beach!

The hookups may not be pretty, but they work!

There's not a lot of room for our motorhome next to the cabin, but we're able to extend both of our slides, so we're happy. 

The weather today started out foggy, but as the fog burned off, it turned into a nice November day.  I went for a walk along the Discovery Trail.  I walked on the boardwalk going north, and the paved trail going back south. 

Next to a portion of the boardwalk, a couple of machines were grading or dredging or doing something, but I don't know exactly what.

The Discovery Trail heading south.

I stopped to see the display of a gray whale skeleton along the Discovery Trail.

Bicycle parking at the whale skeleton.

Only the shadow knows...

The necessary:

News

There have been a few things happening around here besides all the rain.  Our fall season is definitely coming to an end, like it always does.

I had a colonoscopy in mid-October.  They had to remove a couple of polyps and although they are benign, I just found out that they are the kind that can indicate colon cancer.  Since my dad died from colon cancer, this is a scary subject for me.  I'll have to get another colonoscopy in five years or less.

The part about the colonoscopy that bothered me the most, besides the prep, which we all know and (don't) love, I had to stop taking my blood thinner, warfarin, which I have had to take every since my aortic valve was replaced with an artificial valve.  But to protect me during the time I was off the warfarin, I had to give myself shots of Lovenox.  Each shot was very expensive and luckily I only had to do seven of them.  The shots gave me huge bruises on my stomach which are fading now. 

My big news is that we bought a park model in an RV park in Ilwaco, Washington.  The park, Safari Association of Ilwaco, is a private, gated community made up of mostly older park models or trailers.  The lot we bought has room for our motorhome as well as the 1994 Fleetwood park model that is already on the lot.

We are having full hookups installed for the motorhome and as well as getting the park model upgraded to 100 amp from 50 amp.  We had to replace the carpet and most of the furniture, including the refrigerator. 

The Ilwaco/Long Beach Peninsula area is one of our favorite get-a-way areas.  We usually stay at Cape Disappointment State Park, but as the prices go up and the availability of the state park campsites go down, we decided we were ready to make a small investment in something different.  Our lot at Safari, unlike the state park, allows us to get internet and a cell signal.