Author Archives: W&W Mudd

About W&W Mudd

Once retired from high tech and education, Warren and Wendy now enjoying part time RV-ing again. Oh yeah, and then there's that un-retired and managing Peoples Storage in Kenmore WA thing.

LAUNCH

Posted on May 18, 2022 by W&W Mudd

We broke up our BTE (remember, Big Trip East?) into ‘bites” of 400 miles or less, often less than 300, so that we could stop and smell the roses (and pine trees, and freight trains, and cow pastures, but I … Continue reading →

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T Minus 1

Posted on May 15, 2022 by W&W Mudd

Our last post brought us up to Crunch Time, those last few hours where all the rubber hits the road hard. In this case Crunch Time was the 24-hour period where the UPack van arrived, followed early the next morning … Continue reading →

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T Minus 2

Posted on May 15, 2022 by W&W Mudd

Just short of “Launch” for our BTE (Big Trip East), we have been very very busy packing not only our household for transfer, but our temporary household for the trip. We will, of course, be living in our RV until … Continue reading →

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Gilligan and the Twin Yachts

Posted on February 20, 2022 by W&W Mudd

As we careen down the road toward our BTE (Big Trip East), lots of preparation is going on. Lots of it is stuff we wouldn’t think of if a deadline wasn’t prowling around waiting to slap us in the face … Continue reading →

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Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Posted on December 27, 2021 by W&W Mudd

It’s been quite a while since the last post, in March, where we got to watch people blow something up. That’s hard to top on my playlist, but it isn’t why content has been thin (and thin is being generous!). … Continue reading →

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Fort Worden: A Bomb and a Blast!

Posted on March 24, 2021 by W&W Mudd

We worked a couple of snow days in early February, days when we had so much snow we told the Assistant Managers to stay home and we would fill in. It’s a great deal for us because, hey there’s about … Continue reading →

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Nothing Says Boonies like a Rusted Propane Tank Farm

Posted on January 23, 2021 by W&W Mudd

The big feature of our trip this time was a first visit to Forks, WA. We’ll get to the actuals a bit later in the blog, but our title comes from our first impression, cruising through town on the main … Continue reading →

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A Very Together Thanksgiving

Posted on December 2, 2020 by W&W Mudd

2020 is the Year of The Killer to me. Not so much in a sense of Jack the Ripper, but more along the lines of The Killjoy. For many decades, Wendy and I haven’t had a Thanksgiving just to ourselves. … Continue reading →

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The Well-Traveled Crab Pot

Posted on August 22, 2020 by W&W Mudd

On our recent (July 2020) annual vacation to Orcas Island, we fished for crab as we always do, setting our 3 pots just in front of the cabins at West Beach Resort. There were monster tides during the early week, … Continue reading →

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The Volcano – and My Inner Hippie Update

Posted on May 28, 2020 by W&W Mudd

Patience is a virtue, so they say. And I now know who are the all-time Patience Supremes. Hippies. I mean, here we are almost 60 years after the Age of Aquarius, and what do we have? When pot is legal … Continue reading →

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