Next stop for us was the Sun Tides RV park in Yakima, WA. The park is adjacent to an 18 hole par 72 golf course with a driving range, so Tom was in golf heaven again. We had stayed at this park for a few days on our trip south from Alaska last year and we'd been looking forward to going back again. We stayed two weeks this time which was a nice respite after all the moving around we'd been doing.
Yakima is in a river valley east of the Cascade mountain range and is a very picturesque setting. The RV park is just outside of town and has lovely views of the mountains or the golf course.
Yakima and the surrounding valley is one of the fruit growing capitals of the good 'ole U.S. of A. As it turns out, it is also one of the main hops growing areas in the world. We went to a museum in Toppenish, WA. next door to Yakima and learned all about the growing and harvesting of hops. Tom had an extreme hankering for a beer for some reason.
Toppenish is well known for it's murals painted on the sides of many of their buisness buildings depicting different periods of western life in the Yakima/Toppenish valley. It was a long fun walk through the old town streets of Toppinish to view all the murals.
