From camping on a bend in the river to Everett .

Slept fitfully - sheet was too cold sleeping bag was too warm . Hit road early . It's weird but I have now driven 2,500 miles on my own without the radio or any music and the only time I was bored was briefly in a rainy Portland traffic jam !

Today visited the small ( ish ) towns of Spanaway , Sumner , Orting , Buckley and Enumclaw . The Jewel was Enumclaw which had a great central area but was not as cheap as the very pleasant Orting which has grown very quickly and thus has traffic problems for commuters and many bargains due to foreclosures . Both are worth considering as are close to Seattle ( football and everything ) and also Pacific Raceways .

I had a long chat with Tom Fulkerson of the American Home Center who manufacture and deliver ( inc full site preparation ) manufactured homes . I was very impressed with the size , quality , construction and price of manufactured homes and am not surprised that they represent 30% of all homes on the market and would consider them quite favorably to be sited on our own land !

I also met the team at the Second Amendment Foundation a group dedicated to preserving the American constitutional right to keep and bear arms . It is largely thanks to them that the state of Washington is no longer discriminating against legal resident aliens and therefore I can pursue my hobby here !

I am very annoyed with Hewlett Packard and will never buy one of their products again !
I got one of their printers , went to use it but could not as I had no USB cable for it . Got one at great cost a few days later , went to use it and guess what ! It only came with one of the two required ink cartridges . I am now seriously considering scrapping it as by the time I have got the ink I will have spent more than the printer cost in cables and ink and more importantly unnecessarily wasted too much of my time . I have a good mind to bill them for my inconvenience .I can forgive the cable but showing that an ink cartridge is included on the box would make anyone assume that they did not need to buy ink ! That makes me so mad !!!!

URRRRRRRRGHHHHHH ! !

Made me open my birthday chocolates and eat too many

GRRRRRR ! Pictures here

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