October, 2021
I woke up this morning, and for some reason I felt a need to jump outside my trailer right then! (after getting dressed of course). Look what I found.
I found another Escape trailer parked in the campsite behind my campsite!
There was no tow vehicle in that campsite. Those folks had likely arrived and parked there very late last night or very early this morning (I didn’t hear a peep from them), and then they took off in their vehicle.
My rig, with the big white truck, is on the left in the photo above… the new folks are on the right.
Over the next two or three days, there was a pickup truck there occasionally, but not very often, and never overnight. So I suspect the people in that trailer were visiting someone nearby, and staying there nearby. I had hoped to meet them, but never felt comfortable on the very few occasions when the pickup truck was there. Ordinarily, Escape trailer owners are exceptionally friendly with other Escape trailer owners, but this felt different. So I kept a courteous distance.
What I did notice however (and I got close enough to take photos of), were the devices they used to lift/level the trailer on one side of the trailer. Rolling ramps, as it were. Such that one could roll the tires up higher or lower very easily without building a ramp out of static blocks.
Here are the static blocks that I’ve been using (below). They work just fine, but it’s a pain to click all of them together and try to keep them aligned with the tires when I’m moving the trailer backwards or forwards, and it’s a pain to know/estimate how many layers of these blocks I need. Hmmmm. I think a trip to the store is in order.
(In the end, I did buy a set of those rolling ramps … they are wonderful! More info/photos will be coming in a future blog post.)
I then went back inside my trailer and had breakfast and made the bed and tidied up. And then I walked through the campground as I usually do when I arrive some place that’s new to me. This time, this place, there were these lovely cabins … fully contained … heat, light, small kitchen, small bathroom (with shower), a bedroom for two, but also sleeping arrangements in the living room. Not all state parks in Washington State have these cabins, but this one does.
And the large front porch looked right out onto the lake. I could live here!
The “Lakefront” cabin below was exceptionally attractive since it was the end unit, no one else on the far side of it, just woods. I wanted to check out the cabin and see how close it was to the lake, but the folks in the white SUV had just arrived and so I felt it was inappropriate for me to wander around their “home”. 🙂
But the cabin just before that one … with lots of trees and plants in between the two units … was the “Whispering Firs” cabin below. And it was right on the lake!
The driveway to this unit was double wide … and it had a power pedestal. Makes me think maybe I could park my trailer/truck there, AND some other folks/friends could arrive by car and park right next to me but they would live in the cabin. What do you think?
Mossyrock and the Ike Kinswa State Park are starting to become a real favorite of mine.