We drove to Corbett, Oregon and took the directions that the manager of the campground told us about. The road followed a river and was twisting and some sharp curves with narrow roads but not lots of up and down like we would have experienced if we took the regular directions. We did some shopping. Stopped in at Camping World for a few things and renewed our President's Club for another year as Allan seems to think we will have a number of purchases ahead of us this year. We decided to take a few minutes to check out some of their RVs. Most were not to our liking. We are satisfied with our 5th wheel and truck so down the road we went to Wal-Mart.
On Sunday we attended church at Columbia Life Center which is an A/G church. They showed us their addition that other MAPS workers help complete. They seemed very please with the quality of work done. We rarely get to see the finished product so this was a treat for us. The manager at the campground was very nice to let us have a late departure. We drove to the Mt. St. Helen's visitor center but the rainy weather caused poor visibility so we hope to stop back by on our way back from Alaska and get some pictures.
Our stay in Olympia was a little stressful as far as driving. We found the road signs to be lacking or posted too late. We had a very hard time finding a place to eat the first night. Everything seemed to be hidden??? I did some shopping. We drove into Tumwater which has numerous city, county, federal buildings. I wanted to get a picture of one of the buildings unusual architecture, but we did not have the camera with us. For our departure day we decided to go to a shopping center and then on to the Olympic peninsula. We missed our exit and thought we could take the next exit and get back on the interstate. Wrong. It was a nightmare. We ended up on a street that we exceeded the load limit of a bridge so we had to back out into traffic to get turned around. Everything worked out. God was looking out for us. On our drive to our next campground we could see the huge snow covered mountains in the Olympia National Park. They reminded me of the Canadian Rockies.
We are staying in Evergreen Coho SKP campground for about two weeks until we leave for Alaska. Cleaning duties and catch up along with some sightseeing should fill that time. I know Katie will be happy here for a while but Allan and Jeanne are looking forward to some non-travel time also.
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