ANACORTES, WA.  We are at the Fidalgo Bay Resort.  Nice but the sites are short and narrow.  We managed to squeeze in.

The drive here was the worst of the trip.  Actually, any drive on I-5 is bad, but today was continual stop-and-go for hours.  We stopped for lunch at a rare rest area, hoping that things would settle down, but they continued unabated.  Three-four lanes solid heavy, nearly bumper-to-bumper traffic, with continual infusions from the right of 2-3 lanes of more heavy traffic.  Very stressful.  An outrage for the state of Washington.  One more reason to avoid the Pacific coast in the future.

We get up early (3:30 am) tomorrow to be sure to get to the ferry docks 45 minutes early for our 6:20 am ferry to Friday Harbor in the San Juan Islands.  We shall sail over an hour each way in waters that are supposed to be teeming with Orcas and the like.  If it goes like our recent elk-viewing experience, we shall be very disappointed.

We return here on the 7:20 pm ferry, so it will be late when we get back to Fidalgo Bay Resort.  Then we shall leave Saturday morning for nearby Lynden, WA for the weekend and much-needed rest before we leave for Ferndale, WA on Monday when the RV tour begins.  We have been over a month on our own private tour, so this will be phase 2 of our adventure.