Last week, starting Wed. afternoon, we loaded our 31' Jayco Greyhawk RV and set forth to the Seattle, WA. area.
On board was my family (wife & two sons) and my sister-in-law and her daughter. For good measure, the wife also brought the family cat -- "Rascal".
We took the standard route North/West via Boise, up through a bit of Oregon and into Washington State. Spent the night in the Boise, ID Walmart parking lot. Pretty noisy there.
Upon arrival, we got to see our new nephew, my sister's first child (Issac). All babies look the same to me. Not being PC, I said something like "nice kid" and "good job sis". Sheesh!
Went fishing in the Puget Sound with my Bro-in-Law (Rich, a Seattle FD fireman) and caught flounder (sole), rock fish (garbage) and some kind of ocean sucker fish (looked like a manta ray with big lips). Didn't have a filet knife, so the fish we kept went to waste. (sigh).
On the way home, we decided to make our route through Yellowstone, but mid-way there (and after hitting a few geocaches), I checked with the park service and they indicated heavy congestion, so I plotted a new course via the Garmin Nuvi.. about 100 miles of routing through farmland, WA and we were back on course.
A few photos from this trip:
Deadmans Pass
Placard at Deadmans Pass
Trish and Janet in front of the RV at Deadmans Pass
Trish and baby Isaac
Wild Horse Monument
A view from Wildhorse monument (and geocache location)
And finally, this handsome snapshot of me asleep after coming back from Pacific Ocean fishing (dead-tired):
One hell of a long drive (just over 2000 miles round trip) to do in a long weekend.
Immediately after returning, I loaded up my truck, ATV and ATV Tent/Trailer and head out to Fillmore for riding, camping and geocaching. That story coming up.
On board was my family (wife & two sons) and my sister-in-law and her daughter. For good measure, the wife also brought the family cat -- "Rascal".
We took the standard route North/West via Boise, up through a bit of Oregon and into Washington State. Spent the night in the Boise, ID Walmart parking lot. Pretty noisy there.
Upon arrival, we got to see our new nephew, my sister's first child (Issac). All babies look the same to me. Not being PC, I said something like "nice kid" and "good job sis". Sheesh!
Went fishing in the Puget Sound with my Bro-in-Law (Rich, a Seattle FD fireman) and caught flounder (sole), rock fish (garbage) and some kind of ocean sucker fish (looked like a manta ray with big lips). Didn't have a filet knife, so the fish we kept went to waste. (sigh).
On the way home, we decided to make our route through Yellowstone, but mid-way there (and after hitting a few geocaches), I checked with the park service and they indicated heavy congestion, so I plotted a new course via the Garmin Nuvi.. about 100 miles of routing through farmland, WA and we were back on course.
A few photos from this trip:
Deadmans PassPlacard at Deadmans Pass
Trish and Janet in front of the RV at Deadmans Pass
Trish and baby Isaac
Wild Horse Monument
A view from Wildhorse monument (and geocache location)
And finally, this handsome snapshot of me asleep after coming back from Pacific Ocean fishing (dead-tired):
One hell of a long drive (just over 2000 miles round trip) to do in a long weekend.
Immediately after returning, I loaded up my truck, ATV and ATV Tent/Trailer and head out to Fillmore for riding, camping and geocaching. That story coming up.
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