26/27AUG09 - Mount Vernon, WA

Wednesday morning, 26AUG, we departed enroute British Columbia, Canada, but first we needed to stop at Valley Freightliner in Mount Vernon, WA, for routine maintenance on the RV. Unfortunately the routine maintenance would take two days and we would have to be out of the RV most of the two days.

So on the 1st day we took off to explore La Conner & Mount Vernon, WA. La Conner was a hippy haven in the late 60s, early 70s; and is now home to many accomplished artists. In fact there was a walking tour of outdoor art spread throughout the down town.

After lunch at the La Conner Brewing we headed to Mount Vernon, the Tulip capital of the USA for more

explorations.

On the 2nd day we explored Anacortes, WA. An interesting thing in Anacortes is that the city garbage cans are giant replicas of canned salmon that was canned by local canneries before the collapse of the fishery. After two full days in the shop, we picked up our RV and checked into the nearest RV park to spend the night before heading towards Canada.