A Day Trip

We continue to check out possible places for us to park the rig and settle down. We want some place that doesn't get terribly cold in the winter time. Brother Pat and Sister Sherry have both suggested we look at something along the Columbia River. So today we visited Sunland Estates (near the Gorge Amphitheatre), Mattawa and Desert Aire. The one thing we noticed about all of these places is how much they have grown. They are no longer small communities - and they are no longer collections of RVs and and mobile homes.

I didn't start taking pictures until we were on the way home. This is the last of the acres and acres of orchards and vineyards we saw today -

The tall cliffs and hills are stark, sere and dry -

I certainly hope these "mares' tail" clouds are not harbingers of bad weather coming for this weekend's Mennonite Country Auction!

These are parts of the one RV encampment that we did see today. These are all parked and set up by the fishermen who are here for the salmon runs. It's as crowded as some of the camps we've seen on BLM land down in the Southwest.

 

I tried to snap a picture as we were driving of the many boats we saw on the Columbia, but I wasn't very successful...

Aw, there's one on the left - and another behind the bush -

We drove along miles and miles of burned range land as we went north on Highway 23 towards Othello -

From Othello we took Highway 17 back into Moses Lake. We stopped at KFC and picked up chicken for supper. It was a good day.