Our Washington home

We stayed for a month 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: 2025-09-04
  • Check out: 2025-10-04
  • 30 nights

Weather:

  • Partly cloudy, rain
  • High temps ranging between 70-82°F, lows around 57-60°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
  • 40 PSI water from the house
  • No sewer hookup; used macerator and hose to dump into house septic system

Internet (in usage priority order):

  • Starlink: 80-230 Mbps down, 10-40 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
  • RoamLink: 13 Mbps down, 0.2 Mbps up, 160-215 ms ping (RoamLink uses whichever is best of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile)
  • AT&T: 10 Mbps down, 0.5 Mbps up, 40 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
  • House Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

  • House

Our coach parked in front of the house, with our Starlink dish on the flagpole, to peek over the trees:

Our coach at home

Our coach at home

Our coach at home

Using the macerator to dump our waste tanks (as previously documented):

Using the macerator to dump our waste tanks

The other end of that 200 feet of hose goes into septic tank:

Hose into septic tank

This time I kept the hose in place, with foam weather stripping sealing the gaps on either side of the hose; this let me just turn on the macerator and open the tank valves to dump, without having to go around to the septic tank to open it, insert the hose, then remove the hose and re-close it after each time:

Hose into septic tank

The RV electrical outlet box we added on the house last year had an issue, so we had it replaced with a better one, so were able to have 50 amp power:

Electrical box

Electrical box

Nice to have full hookups at home.

While there, we cooked some pizzas in my Ooni pizza oven, which had been stored in our shed:

Pizza oven

Pizza oven

Pizza

I decided to take the pizza oven with us, as we’ll be staying in one place for even longer early next year.

It was good to be home!