We made the trip from Cascade Locks, OR to the Tulalip Casino in good time in spite of accidents in Tacoma, Seattle, and Lynnwood on I-5. They cost us about 30-40 minutes overall. We "dry camped" here last night and had a nice dinner at a Casino restaurant. Today we will fuel up and take the coach to our lot in Port Susan and start some serious cleaning of both the coach and the truck, both are very dirty and still have a red tint to them from the fine red dust of Monument Valley and Moab. Overall we drove the coach 3500 miles and put an additional 500 on the truck doing side trips. Wherever we were we were "home". Both vehicles performed perfectly but, as expected, we shook a few things lose and the coach is going to be spending some time at the dealership getting a few things fixed. We may find ourselves living on Denita again for a few weeks. Oh Darn!
This has been in interesting spring for weather. It seems we were experiencing some kind of weather extreme almost everywhere except right here in the Pacific Northwest. We left in mild weather and came back to sunny skies. Eslewhere we had everything from high winds with gusts to 70 mph to freezing temperatures, snow and hail. One thing we did not have a lot of was rain. Having said that I must also say that every day we went out to explore we had good weather to do that. We hiked where and when we wanted to. The only thing that kept us from doing all the hikes we wanted to do was crowded parking lots with no place to park at the trail heads in Arches NP. We made up for that by going off road with the truck and finding a great hike with almost no one else around because the trail head was hard to get to withour a four wheel drive vehicle.
We enjoyed this adventure a great deal and look forward to planning our next one. This may be the last post for a while but I hope to add some pictures to this post and the last one and Arlyene is working on some video too.
WMD
This has been in interesting spring for weather. It seems we were experiencing some kind of weather extreme almost everywhere except right here in the Pacific Northwest. We left in mild weather and came back to sunny skies. Eslewhere we had everything from high winds with gusts to 70 mph to freezing temperatures, snow and hail. One thing we did not have a lot of was rain. Having said that I must also say that every day we went out to explore we had good weather to do that. We hiked where and when we wanted to. The only thing that kept us from doing all the hikes we wanted to do was crowded parking lots with no place to park at the trail heads in Arches NP. We made up for that by going off road with the truck and finding a great hike with almost no one else around because the trail head was hard to get to withour a four wheel drive vehicle.
We enjoyed this adventure a great deal and look forward to planning our next one. This may be the last post for a while but I hope to add some pictures to this post and the last one and Arlyene is working on some video too.
WMD
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