Yakima, WA

Saturday, July 20, 2017

I haven’t written for a few days so will update everyone as to what is going on.  We did not go into Seattle on Wednesday as we were too exhausted from the day before so rested up and did a bit of local shopping fighting the ever congested traffic in this area.  Our dinner meal was at this unique place called XXX Root Beer which was like an old 50’s dinner with so much stuff on the ceiling and the walls and in the aisles that you did not know where to look.  We had root beer in very large glass frosted mugs which was delicious along with a dinner meal.  Interesting place as you can see from the pictures. 

Ceiling

Thursday we went to visit my high school friend Pat and husband Dale at their lovely home in North Bend.  What a gorgeous place, spacious and sitting on three acres among the trees.  We had fun catching up on our families, trips, etc. and then went into town for a nice Italian dinner at a locally owned restaurant.  Thank you Pat and Dale for a lovely visit.  Hope we will see you again when we next get up to Washington.

Friday was a travel day for us going from Issaquah to Yakima, WA.  Terrain is completely different in this part of the state with mountains covered in golden grasses,  farms, orchards vineyards and hops.

That's Mt. Rainier in the background

Yes, hops for making beer.  Had never seen this growing before.  

The vines or whatever they are on are on some sort of framework that looks like a V.  Interesting.  Will have to learn more about it. 

We are we are staying at an Elks Lodge.  What a find this place is.  Trying to find it was our first problem.   I have to call the Lodge for help finding it.  This Lodge owns a golf course, has a lovely Lodge meeting place with pro shop, restaurant, lounge, and 30 spaces for RV’s set on a large field of grass among large locust and pine trees.  Since there was no one else in any of the RV spaces, we were able to choose the one we wanted under a large tree which provides us with shade on at least part of the RV all day.  Great to have shade with temps in the high 90’s and low 100’s next week.  Get set up and pull out our chaise lounges and sit in the shade while watching some golfers using the driving range.  Nice breeze and relaxing.

Later on we go to the lounge in the Lodge for a drink and are invited to join a local couple whom we spend the rest of the evening with.  They gave us lots of advice about places to see and how to get there and shared some of their own adventures as forest rangers in the local area.  Nice evening.