Thursday - We slept in a little this morning after yesterday's marathon day, and had a pretty easy morning. I spent an hour or so on yesterday's blog, and Joe did a little maintenance in preparation of tomorrow's departure and ferry ride over to Vancouver Island. He's still messing with the air conditioner, trying to limp it along until we get home, although we are not having to use it much up here. He also washed the windshield on both the RV and the car.
Of course, he wanted to go for a drive, so we took off about noon for the little town over on the freeway, which I finally figured out is named Smokey Point. If we run out of money before we get home, he found a job opportunity here.
After going around in circles trying to find the post office, we headed north toward Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. He had picked out a loop road that would circle back to I-5, but then he found a loop road off the loop road, and of course he HAD to take that one. It had nice views of the mountains and of the forest
but then we ran out of pavement.
We caught glimpses of the pretty, emerald-colored Sauk River through the trees and finally found a pull-off with a trail. I walked down a few feet for a picture,
but Joe tried out a different trail. He climbed down on all fours and scooted down partway to get a view, and I caught him clawing his way back to the top. And I had the better view anyway.
Our next stop was at a bridge crossing this pretty river, right next to the Peek-a-Boo trail where part of the road had washed out a few miles in (we weren't in to hiking today anyhow). But we crossed places on our road that had washed out recently and had been repaired already.
This river was beautiful, rushing over stones and around boulders. I even found a rock I needed, but Joe wouldn't go get it for me. It had some nice markings on it that I could see through the water.
We saw a few waterfalls next to the road, and one way up at the top of the mountain. And, the river had waterfall drops every once in a while.
Although we were on a gravel road, it wasn't too bad, just really dusty. But we were surrounded by forest again.
When we left the campground, it was 66 degrees and overcast, but as we got further north and east, the sun came out and it got up to 71 or so. But it was hard to drive through the sun-dappled forest, especially through the dust. We even got a sun-dappled picture of us!
and our dusty car.
We got back to the campground about 6:30, and it was 66 degrees and overcast. We drove a little over 100 miles in our loop drive, but it took a long time. We missed a turn once and had to turn around and go back to town to find the right road, but we finally worked our way home, "worked" being the operative word here. After a quick dinner, we played our final card game for a while. The girls have been on a winning streak, and it still held tonight but the games are getting closer. We only won by 90 points. Collins and Marilyn are staying in this area for 3 more nights, then heading back around the bottom of the Seattle/Tacoma area and over to the Olympia Peninsula where we will catch up with them again sometime next week. We are off to catch the ferry tomorrow!
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