Moses Lake, WA

Today we completed the first leg of our 4 day trip to get from Deer Park near Spokane, WA to Newport Oregon. We traveled about 150 miles to Moses Lake, which is more or less in the middle of Washington. We decided to take some of the smaller highways instead of staying on the interstate. We figured it would be more interesting. And we sure did see something interesting. We saw 3 Dromedary camels along the side of the road. And no, we hadn't been drinking. We have no idea what they were doing there or how they got there. We're guessing they belonged to one of the farms or ranches in the area, but why you would want/need a camel on a farm is beyond me. I wish I'd gotten pictures, but by the time I thought to grab the camera, we were well past them.

We didn't see any purple majestic mountains or fruited plains, but we did see acres and acres of amber waves of grain. For several miles the fields spread as far as we could see in all directions. Quite beautiful.

We are spending the night at the Pier 4 RV resort, which is part of the Sunrise Resorts campground network we bought a membership in last month. This is the first time since buying into the network that we've stayed at one of their parks. The spaces are a little closer together than we would generally prefer, but it's on a lake, has all the basic amenities we need/want, and it's only $1 per night, so we can't complain.

We're now relaxing under the awning outside our motorhome sipping wine and snacking on fruit, cheese and crackers. Life is rough.

Tomorrow we'll hit the road again. We plan to travel another 200 miles to Silver Creek, WA where we'll stay at another membership network park.