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Day 38. Idaho to... Washington!
... I was ready to log some miles.
Couple problems with that though...
First, it's very easy to start noticing the things that you'll be happy to be done with, and get even more anxious to be home. Second, there quickly becomes a tendency to not stay as organized, or clean up quite as well (we'll be home soon, remember?). These little routines have kept us fairly sane for 5 weeks, we can all feel it unravel just a ...
A Living Ghost Town - Liberty, Washington
On a business trip to Wenatchee, Larry and I took a detour off of highway 97 between Cle Ellem and Wenatchee Washington and found Liberty, Washington, who claims to be a "Living Ghost town".
According to signage by the Fire House/Museum, "Liberty, the oldest mining town site in Washington, was ...
Back to the cold NW
We are all checked into the camp. Lots of trees so no satellite but there is cable, no internet but there is cell service. It has gotten below freezing the last several nights so we will refill our fresh water tomorrow and use our onboard tank. Nothing like roughing it in the wild. The dogs will be on tight leashes so if they see deer or other critters we will stay attached. We will be here until early Saturday so we can avoid Seattle traffic. More ...
Apple Squeezin' Time
... water hit me it was like using an apple scented shampoo or soap..
Sunday I was up early and loaded with the empty totes, 15 gallons of juice and maybe 150 lbs of pulp… and the 3 ½ hour drive home…
Sunday afternoon and part of Monday had us canning the juice, and processing the pulp into apple sauce, but it’s much more like apple butter.. We ended up with 40 something quarts of juice and 50 ...
Dam Fire!
... wildfires across the state. Following the advice of our good friend and dam connoisseur, Mark Cook, we stopped at the visitor center and learned more about the building of the dam across the Columbia and the other earthen dams on the Grand Coulee to create Banks Lake. The dam on the river is a mile across and one of the largest concrete structures in the world. We were too late for one of the tours but can imagine joining Mark on one of ...