Smokey Skies

We left the Ellensburg KOA this morning under blue skies, but we soon began to see the evidence of the many wild fires that are burning in the west. You could not even see the Columbia River looking down the Gorge --

The windmill farms looked sort of spooky in the smokey skies --

The mighty Columbia didn't look very blue through the haze --

You could hardly see the little burg of Vantage across the bridge --

This poor fellow with a truck and trailer load full of apples had engine trouble going up the hill on the other side. Not a place I would want to have been stopped. At least there was another lane...

Fortunately, as we climbed out of the Gorge and headed towards Moses Lake, the smoke dissipated and we were back into blue skies. We made good time and arrived at Ponderosa Falls RV Park near Cheney a little after two pm. We have a site up on the hill that was supposed to get good satellite TV reception. It took three tries moving Auntie Violet -- a little to the left; a little more to the front; a little more to the left -- and it finally latched on!