August 23, Pulled out of camp and headed south on Canadian Highway 1, stopped at Hell’s Gate and took some pictures. We had decided that we have gone down on the tram once before and refused to pay the $28 per person to ride down, and then they expect you to spend money for food or gifts while down at the water. We had left and headed for the border, took us 3 hours to finally get through, don’t know what the hold up was, but finally made it, had stopped in the town of Sumas, south of the border for fuel. Had driven to Bellington, stopped at WalMart, went inside ate dinner at McDonalds, shopped for some groceries, they didn’t have Refrigerators for dairy products, so we didn’t get milk or cheese or produce items. We had asked about someplace to stay and was told to go to the Casino, got there and plenty of trailers parked for the night.
August 24, Left the casino and got onto Highway 5 toward Seattle, lots of traffic, finally got through it and arrived at Lacy, Washington at a Airstream Park for a few days. Drove about 125 miles today. Decided to wash the trailer, pulled trailer to back of park where you can wash cars and trailers, it really needed a wash, we washed it twice before but never with a brush and hand wash to get all the dirt off from Alaska. Get trailer set back up on our spot, made some dinner and relaxed the rest of the evening.
August 25, Went and did laundry this morning, went to Costco, had some lunch at Costco, got back to trailer, but stuff away and left again to find a WalMart. It was about 5 miles away, had to buy some meats for our next venture to the coast of Washington state, and then went and got fuel for our travel tomorrow. We plan to travel along the coast of Washington and then Oregon before heading east.
August 26, Pulled out, went and dumped the trailer, and then headed west on Route 5 and then got on route 8, route 12 and then Route 105 to Route 101. We had stopped in Long Beach for the night at Driftwood RV Park, drove north to see what was there, nothing but houses, turned around and went back to camp. Sat and watched TV, since we had cable, we haven’t had TV for a long time.
August 27, Pulled out of camp this morning about 9:30, after talking to our neighbor about his bikes. We had traveled south on Route 101, across into Oregon at Astoria, nice long bridge we had to travel over. Stayed on Route 101 until we got to the town of Tillamook, we had pulled into a place to buy jerky, Tillamook County Smoker, different flavors, and then continued to the place where they make the Tillamook cheese and ice cream. We tour a self guided tour and saw how they make and package the cheese, after the tour we got into the line for a cheese taste, really good cheese. We then continued downstairs to the retail store and to the ice cream stand. Their ice cream is really rich and good, made with whole milk, the place was packed with people everywhere and the cafeteria was very loud with noise, people talking, chairs going in and out. Got back out to the trailer, left drove a while and stopped for the night in Lincoln City, Oregon at Logan Road RV Park, with a casino across the street. Ate dinner, sat outside and relaxed. The temperature today was 99 degrees and dropping 20 degrees in the valley or along the shoreline. It is now 8 pm and it is 75 degrees and breezy outside from the ocean
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