Buy a tent quickly

The title of this entry tells everything, actually... ;-) The mission of this day was to get some souvenirs, a rental car and - last but definitly not least - a tent. After picking up the car, which is a dark-red Ford Focus (without working power plug, i.e. cigarette lighter), we went to the shopping district for buying a tent. In our timetable we spared one (!) hour for doing that a named it "buy a tent quickly". In reality, it took us 4 hours for visiting 3 stores and finally getting a tent for 189 CAN$ + Tax + Lifetime Membership at MEC Inc.! By the way...our goal was to get one for less than 50 Euros, but the tent we bought was actually the cheapest one. Please also see the rest of our Vancouver pictures.

Starting way too late, we crossed the border to the U.S. and left our finger prints there. When we asked the people of the border patrol if we should lock the car, they just said: "There are 10 security cameras and 2 armed guards, what do you need the lock for?" ;-) We finally arrived at Burlington KOA (Kampgrounds of America, you'll see that more often now...) just in time to check-in. Of course, it started to rain heavily upon our arrival and we had to set up our brand new cheap tent for the first time. However, we have to add that the tent is really easy to handle and we did not experience a wet night at all! The nice things in KOA are the clean restrooms and the free WiFi (WLAN for Europeans) all around - see the picture beside for Internet in a tent! Please also note the introduction of our brand new navigation system Garmin nüvi, which has been sponsored by Rainer! Thanks again for all the cool stuff you sent to Burlington for us. Please see more pictures of the trip through Washington State in our Seattle Photo Album.