#45g Lets take the ferry to Bellingham Wa

My Excursion to Bellingham is a story that only could happen to me a couple of weeks prior I was looking to order some different parts for her trip and I needed to have been delivered to where we would be in about a week at that time we had planned on going north from Seattle to Bellingham from Bellingham to Vancouver and then down to Chimacum as it turns out that changed but the packages were already on the way to Bellingham well that's not the worst problem because they can be held for 30 days so are our trip changed in the instead of going counter-clockwise we started out at the southern left part of Olympic 1st and went clockwise to Chimacum after a week or so it was about time to go to Bellingham and pick up the packages

On Saturday India and I hopped in the rental car and we went to the Port Townsend ferry. It takes you across Puget sound to the mainland then an hour drive to Bellingham. Savannah stayed back sometimes she would rather have some alone time. Our intention was to kind of mess around and pick up a few packages. As a reminder we had sent them to a UPS store because we thought we were to be in Bellingham first. When we reversed our route. At this point going there is kind of a hassle, but we wanted to make lemonade and just enjoy being tourists. We found out that the packages we had shipped to the local post office there had all been rejected because sometimes the post office doesn’t want to receive packages from Amazon. This can also happen if it’s a UPS store and Amazon uses Fed Ex. I guess that’s a rivalry thing. Almost all were returned to sender and refunded. Some of the packages were RV chemicals and they didn’t send those back probably because they qualify as hazardous materials.

Recap. I was buying stuff from amazon for the free shipping.

To go to Bellingham, we used 50.00 in fuel, 80.00 in ferry costs and two days of time and meals.

The free shipping wasn’t all that free but through this pain I better learned how to receive packages.

If the sender can use the USPS from the start, I can accept via General delivery but vendors get confused and mess this up as well.

My final best solution is to receive packages from amazon to a campground I will be at in a week, calling ahead of course. Hard lesson to learn.

After that big fiasco we had lunch at the Olive Garden and soon enough it will be towards the end of our day. We left from Bellingham to Seattle.

I had seen on freeway Park in PBS show about our city Parks and how they became well have a start with Central Park in moved on over a century but they mention freeway parking Seattle it the them school is a really pretty thing that they did worthy walkway crosses the interstate and that itself is usually just in ugly thing it very functional iron cover walkway concrete thing so what they did is they did Lots and lots of concrete slabs that create a maze that were you me and her across and it’s just tons and tons of vegetation and water flowing I saw a thing on PBS about Freeway Park which is a cool overpass that has been so landscaped and camouflaged that you can’t tell there’s a highway below you. It was really nice except they had cut off the fountains presumably because the homeless were using it a toilet.

It is a really cool lush green pretty place in the middle of Seattle that they created as an artistic way to cross the interstate. Most of the time there’s just a pedestrian bridge over the interstate and you can see the tractor-trailers go by, but they wanted to disguise all that. Here is the link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway_Park

and some pictures of what they did it was very cool. We parked near and visited to park. The only negative was there were huddled masses of a dozen young people that appeared to be homeless hanging around in the middle of the concrete walk. There was a urine smell I could have done without. The whole complex was concrete abstract panels with flowing water, but the water was turned off. Sometimes cities do this because the lost people use it as a bathing area or toilet and we, the visiting public, are punished for their behavior. I also saw a guy sitting kind of cross legged and jerking about like involuntary convulsions and a really look on his face, angst. I decided he was withdrawing from some drug the hard way which is admirable but ruins the mood of our walk in the park. There were also the folks laying in the flower beds passed out.

Of course, this kind of spoiled it also. Next, we we’re going to catch the Bainbridge Island Ferry to Poulsbo and while locating the ferry it started raining torrentially which made it a little hard to navigate. After the ferry landed, we drove up to the RV which was about 30 minutes and that would end our day.