Tom and Jen bought a truck camper.
Day 88: Hoodsport Winery Sunny and pleasant. The days becoming shorter and shorter is getting a little worrisome to me. We don’t go out much after dark, but sit in Arvi and read. Arvi is small to sit in for hours every night. We may have to stay closer to towns, where we can go... Continue Reading →
Day 87: N 83rd St, Seattle, WA Sunny and warm. We've been doing this and that in Seattle, visiting daughter Kelsey, shopping, eating out, fine-tuning Arvi, taking care of bills, staying in Arvi. After sleeping on the streets of Seattle five nights we pushed on to Olympic National Park. First stop, after lunch with Kelsey... Continue Reading →
Day 83: Seattle, WA Cloudy and cool. Kelsey had to work so we did some tasks and errands that we’ve been waiting to do. In fact, we made a decent sized list of things that need to be done. We tried to get the shopping done Friday to avoid weekend traffic. Seattle has so many... Continue Reading →
Day 82: Newhalem Campground, North Cascades National Park, WA Mostly cloudy and cool. Looking to get a good view of Mount Baker, we drove the east side of North Cascades NP per advice of the ranger at Newhalem. We only got a glimpse of a piece of the flank of the mountain when the sun... Continue Reading →
Day 81: Frater Lake Trailhead, Colville National Forest, WA Rainy and cool. We had a nice drive on Route 20 West towards Vancouver and Seattle. Several deer, turkeys and a skunk came in the road to say “hi.” We took a paved hike at the site of a log flume in the early 1900s. I... Continue Reading →
Day 80: Springy Point Campground, North Idaho Cloudy and cool. Tom did some reprogramming of our power inverters and I read maps and did other domestic and hygienic things. We went into the town of Sandpoint and found a brewery on Google maps. MickDuffs had some great seasonal beers and wonderful hot wings. We wandered... Continue Reading →
Day 79: Caithness Rest Stop, British Columbia Partly sunny and cool. Decisions, decisionsSo we decided to go to Vancouver through Canada, not the U.S. We were pushing along just fine. We got to Creston, a town full of orchards and two wineries, and saw Columbia Brewery. We had lunch an hour or so earlier and... Continue Reading →
We finished the book, “Alaska,” by James Michener. The audio book is 57 hours long, so it took a while. The tome covers in detail Alaska from prehuman history until 1988: four native nations, Russian occupation, the gold rush, statehood, etc, etc. Since we just spent seven weeks in Alaska, it was easy to follow... Continue Reading →
Day 78: Townsite Campground, Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada Sunny, windy and cool. We are somewhat aimlessly working our way back to Seattle and Vancouver. We haven’t decided if we want to go West through Canada or the U .S. Driving along scenic roads is fun, though. Friday we saw the world’s largest purple... Continue Reading →
Day 77: Two Medicine Campground, Glacier NP, MT Partly sunny, windy, cool. We left the windy and rain-threatened Two Medicine Campground and checked out the Many Glacier entrance to Glacier NP. It was windier. I checked out Many Glacier Hotel there while Tom checked out a new squeak in the vehicle that we couldn’t find.... Continue Reading →
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