Road trip to Forks WA around Lake Crescent from Chimacum WA 2017

Lets get this show on the road already. Hannah with her new Lavender scarf from the festival and thunder shirt

A neat name, in Sequin WA.

Lake Crescent Lake is part of Olympic National Park

Crescent Lake, an overcast day with an off and on drizzle

A rainey overcast day

Across the lake, I wonder how they get there  other then by boat

Enterning Forks WA through the canvas tunnel

The canvas tunnel

 

Trip from Randle WA to Chimacum WA, 2017

   We left Randle WA heading for The Escapees  Evergreen Coho RV Park in Chimacum  WA.. We had been here before and liked the location. We arrived while the office was closed for lunch. This is a member only park. We unhooked our car and while doing so a gentleman came over and asked if we know what site we were assigned to. We said no, and he said all sites were full. Did we have a reservation? Yes, good thing we made a reservation. Shorty thereafter the office opened and we received our site number. The week we were there all short time sites were full. I believe the month or longer sites had openings. See park review in  next post.
      Back to the trip from Randle. We traveled along some narrow secondary roads with beautiful scenery. Only minus was  huge log trucks that didn't even slow down.

A wide spot in the road features the Caboose Motel.

A rural  US Post Office

     After some miles we start to see  some small towns, then more traffic as we approach the city of Tacoma. We cross an area called "The Narrows". Now we are on the western side of Puget Sound .The traffic starts to thin out a little and we can enjoy the beautiful area. We then cross the Hood Canal.

 

 

 A busy port.

Another  bridge

What is that white stuff on the mountain?

Yet another bridge

Finally our turn

The entrance to the bearutiful Escapees  park

Next the review of the Escapees Evergreen Coho Park

Florance OR to Burns OR 2017

                            September 5th 2015

      Hi everyone, we have been home for about six weeks now and finally trying to get in the mood to start blogging again. We suffered very little hurricane damage to our home, but we lost our dock and our seawall suffered major damaged, and will have to be replaced. A costly expense the insurance doesn’t cover. I want to try and continue blogging about our trip out west as a diary for us and for future reference. I hope what I write will also help some of you with your travels. Linda did keep a journal which is a tremendous help. Now all I have to do is put it to type. There are a lot of details we are both trying to remember. We will start by telling of our 3,000 mile trip back to Florida. This is my second attempted to start blogging again. I feel it is something I must do to keep my mind active and to help remember the great trip we had even with some of the problems we encountered.

    Here we go. We were on the coast of Oregon in the city of Florence,  at a Thousand Trails RV Park when hurricane Irma hit the coast of Florida and passed through our home town of Cocoa leaving a path of devastation. After several phone calls to friends in our development we decided we better head home. Life is so different now that we are home owners then when we traveled full time for almost ten years.  At any rate we made the decision to head home to our adopted state of Florida.

     Many forest fires delayed our start back east. We didn’t want to make many detours with a lot of added mileage, so we just waited till we could go in the direction we planned. We did travel through some heavy smoke in Eugene and Sisters Oregon area. We passed some beautiful country we wanted to visit. Hopefully some day we may get back. There were many “fire camps” along the way up McKenzie Pass at 5325 feet high through the Cascades, which is open only in the summer. There were many lava flows in the area. There is world class fly fishing in several rivers   Smoke is heavy at times. We pass signs along the way telling the folks level one evacuation is in place, get ready to go. As we pass through the city of Sisters there is what looks of an old western town. Wish we could stop and visit. There is a RV park right in town. Then we pass through some more heavy smoke. We drive through the Oregon Badlands Wilderness.  We then continue along route 20 with not much but wilderness and few towns. A good two lane road. Our destination is Burns RV Park in Burns OR. Trip of 329 miles, much further then we like to travel in a day. Good thing we called we procured one of the last spaces where we could pull through and didn’t have to unhook. The park did fill up that night. We will do a review of this park in another post. Gas in the area was $3.09 a gallon.

 

In the city of Eugene

Through the McKenzie Pass and over the Cascades

Lava Flows

A huge load to bring over the Pass

More smoke approaching the city of Sisters

The cute city of Sisters, deserves a revisit

Top photo on right is an RV park in the town of Sisters, next a working ranch and finally a "full" service gas station. Remember them. Most attends in uniform.

 

 

 

Road trip to Randle WA, July 2017

     We left Quincy WA heading for Randle WA and the Maple Grove RV Resort And Golf Club  After a short drive on the interstate we cross the Columbia river.

Windmills dot the landscape                                                   Beautiful snow covered mountains

We exit the highway onto route 12,  now this  a steep and beautiful drive.  After a short time the road changes to a narrow two lane road. There are many pull outs for slow moving vehicles. We did use a few if traffic backed up behind us. We are heading up to White Pass.

    Check out these rocky mountains

We immediately notice the cooler fresh air. We make a short stop at the top.

 

We can see snow capped mountains.  One is Mount Rainier National Park. Now it is  a downhill drive with still more beautiful views.

Pictures taken on the fly. Things just pop up and do the best getting them

We soon arrive at our destination, Randle WA. It is a lot cooler here then our last stop. What a beautiful drive.

July 17, 2017