Our 19 Orientation and On Wisconsin

[rbrandenstein]

It has been over a week since we picked up our Escape 19 and traveled to Wisconsin. Here is our recap of our exciting last few weeks.

Our 19 was finally finished and orientation scheduled for September 15 at 11:00. We live in St. Louis area and have kids in Seattle, so we headed West on Wednesday, Sept 6. After a stop in Fort Collins and a weekend in Salt Lake City to visit friends, we arrived in the Seattle area on Sunday, 9/10, to visit our kids.
On Friday, our orientation day, we got up early and drove to Chilliwack. We thought it would take 3 hours, but only took a little over two. We were early but checked in at Escape to see if we could start early - no dice. So, Erin suggested Cookies Grill for breakfast, a place I would also recommend. (get the sausage over the bacon, it is really good stuff.)
So, back at Escape, we had Reace for our orientation. The normal person was not around so we got the boss! Reace explained he was rusty at this, but offered very good advice. It took over 2.5 hours for the orientation.
Dennis hooked up the trailer to our Outlook to make sure everything was ok and then we disconnected so Randy (a part time trailer mover) could hook up for the trip to Sumas. Randy beat us over the US border as we had a 40 minute wait in the line. Our 19 was waiting for us at Bob's Burgers.
We hooked up and off we went. This was our first time towing a travel trailer, but all things went smoothly. We headed back to Seattle and stayed in an RV park in Bellevue, WA. The RV park is just off I-90 and not very scenic, but it was friendly and had a pull-through so I didn't have to back up. We spent the weekend trying to organize our stuff.
Here is a picture taken by Reace of our new Escape and our resting spot at the RV Park in Bellevue.

More to follow...