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    onederfullone
    

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    Okay, but it's not 550 cash yet...

    Maybe we need to look for more attainable progress locally?

    http://www.progressive.com/AtProgressive/4-ways-to-try-glamping.aspx

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    Are you suggesting that Alli goes glamping instead?!!

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    onederfullone
    

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    sheeesh...

    ..In Ballard?

    [edit]...sorry penny, i was being an ass, but serious, fwiw.

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    I was reading an article about a group of retirees who travel the country in their (fancy) RVs. Basically they go from National Park to National Park and volunteer their services in return for a place to park the bus. That actually sounds like a lot of fun!

    Edit: I think it's called Workamping, but that refers to a lot of different jobs. This particular group of people viewed it more like a neverending holiday :-)

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    I once stayed several days at a hot spring close by the Salton Sea in South Eastern California. The very same place depicted in the movie "Into the Wild". There was a semi-permanent encampment of elderly poor who lived in their not so fancy RV's. True snowbirds who wintered there to escape the cold. While I was there, we lived off of cheap dried goods like beans and rice and supplemented with food from the dumpster behind the one grocery store. The land is public and in state park territory but it is completely empty and there were no paved roads, signs, or road side attraction shelters. The town of Salton was and still is almost a ghost town and also a fair drive away from the springs. Yet, city officials decided to fill the hot springs with concrete because they felt the springs attracted the kind of people they didn't want. Imagine that. I suppose if they had been 'glamping' they would have been welcome. Oh well, back to the subject at hand.

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    Penny,

    All the Land Management Agencies have them, not just the NPS. BLM, USFS, USFWS, etc. It is a great way to spend a summer. Some even spend summers in a more northern park and then head south for the winter and work in parks that are open and vibrant through the winter. Fun folks too.

    D

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    Some even work bluegrass festivals...

    Year around, fwiw.

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    I looked at a few places in the Broadview area area. There's a few nice places up that way, but I can't get over how bad I want to be in Ballard.

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    But that fact that you even looked further than Ballard proper means you are open to widening the search!

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    I saw the most amazing house on 137th off of 3rd. It was 3000+ SF mcm, backed onto a greenbelt. Unbelievably, it's in our price range.

    Gonna have to pass because of the location. Pen, you should look up that listing though. It's OMGOMG.

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    Do you have a link Alli? I love it up there!

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    You bet. http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/13517-Northshire-Rd-NW-98177/home/291103

    Enjoy. :)

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    Don't look at the Broadview area, allisonw. Here's why.

    Years ago, after months, MONTHS! of trying, I managed to catch a damned clever rat that had been invading my basement and evading my traps for way too long.

    Finally, I had that nasty rat nosed yellow toothed miscreant in my clutches but whoa! My innocent little daughters begged me not to kill it, please daddy, please. Not kill it? Well... then there was only one thing left to do, dang it.

    So ok, we all drove out to Broadview with the reprieved rat in orange coveralls & properly shackled and my kids were happy to watch me throw it over the wall into the neighborhood beyond.

    Yeah, I'm guilty of one thing or another but at least I'm not guilty of disappointing my young kids.

    But I digress, the point here is don't look for a house in Broadview because you will likely be buying into a house beset with problems from the progeny of Super Rat.

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    Is that in Hillbilly Hell (Being landed gentry I confess I don't know the borders).

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    Oh, come ON plod, Ballard's crawling with rats. You know that.

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    I was talking about the four legged furry kind allisonw, but yeah, you've come to know how to deal with every type, hee hee.

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    Good grief that's a big house! A little (lot) out of my price range as well. I guess we stay in the shack for now :-)

    Plus - the hounds would be off on a big adventure in about 3 minutes flat if they saw that garden!

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    Allison we held a meeting and you are welcome to come to the dark side if you choose. You are a little young for the hood, but definitely crabby enough to make up for it :)

    http://www.redfin.com/WA/Seattle/2649-35th-Ave-W-98199/home/128742

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    That is a cute house, but the SO commutes to Marysville, so that is a tough sell.

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