R.V. FUN

        I have lived in Washington for about 25 years now and have barley seen anything local!  I've worked on Saturdays for so many years that only left Sundays for exploring this area.  Every time I took vacation it would be to go somewhere cool, fun and far away! Usually warm and sunny too!  Last year we took the r.v. to long beach, where I had never been and decided that this years we should plan a vacation right here in Washington!  We did just that.  There is so much to do and so much to see we planed 8 days in the r.v. and went mostly around the western border.  Many of my clients told me about some great places to see.  We started out up north at Fort Warden (port Townsend) then went west toward the coast, stopping first in Sequim where we had the yummiest breakfast at the Oak Table here I ordered the house specialty.  Apple Pancake!

Then we went to the Olympic game farm.  It is a place you drive though and get to feed the animals.  They only get wheat bread.  The animals are mostly former movie stars.  One of the bears can wave at you.  It was pretty cool!  The buffalo are very big up close, kinda scary even! Except there was a baby buffalo.  He ran after us for more when we were driving away so of course we ad to stop again!

This one was a baby buffalo

Next we went by the Dungeness spit.  It is the longest spit in the world (I think)  It is 5 1/2 miles long.  there is a light house at the end but we didn't walk out to it.  We drove by Crescent lake.  It was beautiful.  The lake was so clear and blue you could see the bottom. 

Next stop was Ruby Beach.  It was gorgeous!  We even went back the next morning too!

Sammy playing in the ocean

Here is a cool tree at Kalaloch beach, where we camped for the night.

We stopped a few places along the road the next day.  One was the Giant Cedar Tree and another place we stopped was the Westport winery, where they had a really cool outdoor area with lots of sculptures and stuff!  David liked this ship.

Next stop was Fort Stevens, Or.  We stayed there a few nights and got to walk around all the gun stations and grounds.  We hiked about 10 miles here. Even Sammy, poor girl, she was a trooper and did great!

 We headed east on the 84 and there was a lot of beautiful waterfalls along the way.

Finally we made it to Mary Hill.  I have to say this is one of the nicest camping areas I have ever seen!  There isn't a lot to do here but the river was nice and the view beautiful.  We skipped lots of rocks.  The lots were huge!  They all had plenty of sunshine and plenty of trees too!  We had plenty of room to play bocce.  There is a winery, concert venue, art museums and a awesome full size replica of Stonehenge.  It was built as a memorial to war veterans. I had know idea this even existed ad only a few hours from home!  The whole trip was wonderful and the weather was perfect too! I can't wait to go back to several of these places again and explore even more local areas!