On The Waterfront

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Once again we are on the waterfront with our Sadie. We decided to do one last RV vacation before we put the old girl away for the winter. Since we canceled our trip to Hood Canal in August, because Jill was in San Diego looking after our daughter, Laura, before our new grandson, Judah, was born, we decided we had to make it up.

We arose this morning in Clackamas to rain and heavy cloud cover and a temperature of about 49 degrees. We were a little concerned, but we pressed on with our plan. We headed off to church, and then came home and finished the packing of the coach. We hooked up Daisy Mae behind Sadie, loaded Pogo into her crate, and took off.

The first fly in our ointment was that there was a car that appeared to have slid off the road between our house and our favorite gas station. The police were in attendance, but the street was partially blocked, so we decided to just head for the highway.

The further north we traveled, the better the weather became. We finally stopped to top off the gas tank in Kelso, WA, about 50 miles north of Clackamas. The traffic was not awful today, which it can be on the stretch of I-5 that we traveled. Nevertheless, we stopped at the Scatter Creek rest stop for lunch. We discovered that the rest stop has been refurbished and now has room for many more trucks and RVs. They have even installed 6 (count 'em, 6) RV dump stations! Now, that is significant.

From Scatter Creek we continued on to Olympia, where we headed west to join US Hwy 101. The drive is beautiful at any time, but with the clear blue skies and sunshine today, it was spectacular. We arrived at Potlatch and our RV park, The Waterfront at Potlatch, just at 3:00 PM, as early as we could check in. For those few of you who don't know where Potlatch is, it is located between Skokomish and Hoodsport, on Hood Canal. Now that we have cleared that up, I will close by saying this has been a marvelous day, and as you can see from the photos, the scenery couldn't be more beautiful.