A wet night

Aug
28
Submitted by XL-Network on Sun, 2011-08-28 20:54

Last night it had rained a lot and the wind was blowing pretty hard. The last one wasn't such a problem because my tent is solid enough. Only the rain was a problem because I didn't have a ground cover so water came in through all the small gaps. Everything on the inside was wet. My sleeping mat, sleeping bag, my jacket and myself were all soaked. We should do a little washing to clean out all the wet stuff. Let's hope that the coming days stay nice and dry. Because of the power outage there currently is no internet and not TV (aaarch, now we have to talk to each other), so we have no way of checking the weather.

Washington - wet tent

Harry stayed in the Conference Room last night because his hammock and strong winds are not a very good combination. Once in a while the power would go down and come back a few minutes later. At the beginning of the night I thought to join him, but I decided to stay in my tent.

In the morning when it started to get light and it had stopped blowing and it was only raining a bit I crawled out of my tent and first went into the hot tub. After that I showered and had some breakfast. Now I feel like a man again. Later on we will see if we can find a supermarket that is open on Sunday. We are currently two days on the campground without being able to explore the surroundings. Maybe will do some sightseeing tomorrow.

After we took all our stuff from the washer / dryer we gathered some things, but them in the backpack and headed to the nearest shopping mall, around 3 kilometers away, to get some food. On our way there we saw a couple of men trying to repair some power lines (probably part of the cause of the outage). Without power the traffic lights would not function so there were two police officers to help traffic. Once we arrived at the mall it turned out that everything was closed there also. Well, there was one Indian place that was open, but it would take 1,5 hours to get some food. So, back to the campground and get something to eat there.

Washington - repairing power lines

We had the idea to check out the main office because they had a little store there (there is power at the campground because of a generator). That's when a computer screen which showed a website caught my eye. Turns out the internet was functioning, just not in the cafe. So I did some quick blogging and then went to the pool.

Tomorrow is monday and we are planning to go to Washington. Smithsonian, Space Museum or something else. We don't know what it's going to be. I do know that we will leave early.