Our Washington home

We stayed at our official domicile, aka Mom’s house, in Shelton, Washington.

It was good to be home! An opportunity to catch up on dentists, doctors, optometrists, etc, and of course with family.

Dates:

  • Check in: 2024-08-03
  • Check out: 2024-08-25
  • 22 nights

Weather:

  • Partly cloudy, rain
  • High temps ranging between 68-88°F, lows around 52-60°F
  • Wind gusts to 20 MPH in the area, though much less when sheltered amongst trees

Noise:

  • No road noise
  • No train noise
  • Occasional neighbor noise

Site:

  • Front in, concrete in front, gravel in back
  • Disconnected toad; parked next to coach
  • Fairly level; high in front; used hydraulic leveling

Utilities:

  • 50 amp power, located on house in front of coach, used extension cord
  • 37 PSI water from the house
  • No sewer hookup; used tote or macerator and hose to dump into house septic system

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • Starlink: 11-18 Mbps down, 9-11 Mbps up, 45-65 ms ping
  • House Wi-Fi: 9-11 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up, 20 ms ping
  • Verizon: 3-5 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 45-75 ms ping
  • AT&T: 0.5 Mbps down, 0.01 Mbps up, 120 ms ping, negligible service
  • T-Mobile: no service

Amenities:

  • House

Our coach parked in front of the house:

Our coach by the house

Our coach by the house

Our coach by the house

Our coach by the house

We added an RV electrical outlet box on the house, so were able to have 50 amp power:

Electrical outlet

Starlink dish on a flagpole:

Starlink dish on flagpole

Nice to have full hookups at home. (I’ll have a blog post about the sewer options in a couple of weeks.)