We gathered ourselves together and amazingly all 'things' arrived overnight or express delivery so we are able to travel once again. We left Guaranty RV in Junction City somewhat sad. They are really caring and compassionate people and we truly appreciate their kindness. We started out on Sunday for Thousand Trails (TT) Paradise and it really was a gorgeous camp resort. I will work on a slide show of the park for those TT and non-TT readers who might want to see photos other than what they print in the sales brochures. We only spent one night there, but it was a nice stay.
We departed Thousand Trails Paradise on Monday and drove about 5 hours to the next TT resort - Crescent Bar. We stopped and had lunch in the moho at one of the nice rest areas that Washington provides for travellers. We arrived at Quincy, WA early this afternoon and found the TT park overlooking the majestic Columbia River. One of the biggest rivers I've ever seen. It's so big you can't really tell it's a river - more like a large lake. The park is 8 miles outside of town, with nothing much around. You drive down into a gorge and there is the river. There are some nice housing developments being built near the park and I kept asking Rick who could possibly live out here? Retirees? He read in the newspaper tonight that Quincy is home to at least a few large data centers for large corporations like Microsoft, Intuit, Yahoo, and others. Seems there are many computer techs moving into the area. More about the area later.
I've taken some photos to share with you and Rick also took some very nice shots on the drive today. We saw snow, deer, elk, and crossed many bridges and rivers. And we would have also seen Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier IF the clouds hadn't been hanging around. All in all it was an extremely scenic drive and we are delighted to be able to move on down the road. Life is good.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Headed for Paradise - Really
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So how's the weather? According to the Seattle Times, the highways are all coated in snow. I know you are both snug as bugs in the lodge-on-wheels, but would love to hear about it firsthand. Here, I judge by the walk to Paradise that the weather chickies on channel 15 misjudged the noon time weather by a good five to seven degrees. My bet is it was already up around 102, 103. We'll see what they admit to on tonight's news.
ReplyDeleteNan, Thanks for the phone call yesterday. We were just driving over the passes that received snow overnight. Thank goodness we traveled before the snow. There was snow off the road and Rick took some photos of the trip - which I need to post! Here in Quincy we will reach a high of about 55, about half of what you are getting in Phoenix. In Oregon the weather-guessers always have the "chance of rain" in their forecasts. HA! Later, Mic
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