Just 2 more "wake ups"

We are really getting down to the wire! As I got up this morning, it really hit home that the day after tomorrow we head off on this great adventure. After resisting, for what has seemed like forever, we started loading the car. It looks like an awful lot, but then I think back to others who have also headed up to Chilliwack to pick up their Escape Trailers, and they have talked about not being able to see out their back window. We are probably 90% packed with the last minute items to go in the area behind the front seats. Probably the most perplexing challenge is leaving a warm environment (up to high 70's over the coming weekend) to northwest US where the highs have been running to the low 50's with intermittent rain. I suggested that we go to Ingles and spend 10 minutes in the walk in beer cooler, and then run home and consider what would we like to have had on if that was going to be the temperature for the next 7 days! I did learn with my great hiking challenge of 2012, that it's all about layers and not about having one warm coat. The AT thru hikers experience that when crossing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during this time of year - having on every piece of clothing that they started out carrying. Barbara and I were discussing places that we will visit and possible "camp" on this trip. One of the organizations that we joined is called Harvest Hosts. They have arrangements with places like vineyards, organic farms, wineries, etc where you can stay. We've decided that the first one of these that we would like to visit/stay at is a lavender farm on the Olympic Peninsula. Well, I guess that it is time to continue our last minute packing.