Day 32, July 4th eve, found Babs and I traveling alone once again. I can’t believe that we’ve been on the road 32 days without a cross word! I wouldn’t recommend this type of trip to anyone who hasn’t been married or together, which ever the case, for at least 40 years! This morning we had a wonderful breakfast with our very old friends, in terms of length of time known, Paul & Mary Fleming. We must have taken a thousand or more photos on this trip so far, but do you think we’d remember to take one of Paul & Mary? No! Paul & Mary live near Gig Harbor, WA so we plugged their address into Gi Gi (that’s our GPS, Babs has to name everything!) but forgot to list Ferries as a route option and turned an hour or less drive into a two plus hour drive and ferry ride!
The more things seem to change, the more they remain the same!
After bidding Paul & Mary goodbye, we headed northeast to the Great Coulee Dam so Babs could get her National Park Passport Book stamped. The terrain in western Washington is much different than that of eastern Washington. Once you cross the Cascades Mountains it becomes high desert
then later to the great plains with tons of wheat growing.
The Grand Coulee Dam was a project initiated by President Roosevelt to help the nation out of the Great Depression. The lake
that resulted from damming the river is named lake ____________(guess). There is a great visitor’s center there. Babs caught me playing with a jackhammer!
Anyway we saw a real treat; they were letting water come over the dam!
It was like watching a waterfall the size of five football fields. The ranger said it is a very rare occurrence.
Tonight we are in Spokane, Washington and will be heading toward Yellowstone national Park tomorrow. Happy Fourth of July. Celebrate safely!
Babs Says: Miss Katy and Jason already. Hope Katy is feeling better.
I would have hated to be a fish swimming in Roosevelt Lake when they released the water over the dam. A free fall to death.
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