Move to Long Beach, Washington

Typical - the day you want to move you get rain.  Well, we had rain last night, nice light gentle rain, stopped by day break, but we drove in the stuff intermittently from Sequim down to Long Beach.  We decided to take the long route - staying on Route 101 through Lake Crescent again and how appropriate that the sky was crying as we went through it, through Forks, then south past Ruby Beach, Kalaoche Lodge, and past Lake Quinault area of the Olympic National Park.  Gloomy day but could have been much worse weather wise.  We got spoiled to the sunny blue skies of Sequim - the entire 35 days we were there!

As we got ready to leave our site in Sequim we were nervous because we were in a very tight location, even though it was a pull-through we felt we couldn't make the swing going straight out.  So Dave backed the rig out of the spot and then we wiggled around to finally leave.  Phew!  Then on to Port Angeles and points west. The harbor had 2 freighters tied up at the docks and 2 anchored out with another freighter coming in - busy!  Drove on through some sad towns, just hanging on, making it, not prosperous.  Then we came back into heavy logging areas where you see huge swatches of land scalped of the trees.  Then eventually we got near the ocean and followed it for the last two hours.  Since our top speed was only 55 and most of the time about 45, took us about 6 hours to get here, and 254 miles.  Long day for the driver.  And - our new suspension is doing great, thank you Russell!

Long Beach is a peninsula that butts up against the Pacific Ocean and is just north of where the Columbia River joins the Pacific.  Chose this location because this is the end of the westward trek of the Lewis and Clark's Journey back in 1805.  We will visit as many locations as we can that commemorates their stay here the winter of 1805-1806.  The campground we are at is located right on the other side of sand dunes which separates us and the ocean.  I can hear the ocean as I sit here.  Pretty cool.  And I see kites flying - there is a kite festival in two weeks - not sure if we will be here then.

We had a tidge bit of unluck when we got here - they had us in a pull-through site and we felt if we could get a back-in nearer to the ocean - and possibly a better view than having huge Class A motor homes on either side of us - the better.  So we switched and got settled into the back-in when the management came by and said - oops, made a mistake.  In the meantime someone else came in and took the original pull-through we were signed up for.  They got us another pull-through closer to the ocean which is good.  But put about an hour onto our set-up time because we had to put the slides back in, get the cat back into the truck, hook up the truck and move it to the new site, and unhook the RV, open the slides, get the cat into the RV,  then straighten everything out again.  Very very tired, but we are secure, have cell and phone!! yippee!! and will be here at least a week - maybe more before moving on south again.