North Cascades Highway and Points East

Lake Diablo on the North Cascades Hwy.

Wednesday morning: We departed Camano Island heading East across the North Cascades Highway on recommendations from my daughter and friends. They were right! It is more spectacular than I-90 over Snoqualamie Pass. There were lots of places to pull off and take pictures. The prettiest was at the overlook for Lake Diablo. The color of the water is this beautiful blue-green. I could have added more pictures, but space is limited. Our destination for the night was Carlton, WA. It's basically a one-man town. He owns the country store, a restaurant and the small campground. It would take all of three words to describe it...unlevel, antiquated (old fuses on the electric boxes, not circuit breakers) and unclean! It's a good thing we didn't have to pay full rate!

Grand Coulee Dam

Thursday: Off and running early continuing eastbound and down. Our destination today is Post Falls, Idaho. All the campgrounds in Coeur D'alene, ID were booked solid due to an Arts/Crafts Festival, so we opted for Post Falls. Not much option, really. On or way we stopped at two huge dams. The first was Chief Joseph's Dam and the second was the Grand Coulee Dam. Both were enormous dams. Roosevelt Lake can be seen on the southern end of the dam.

Continuing southeast towards Spokane, we ran into some traffic and another Rialta! A single lady was driving this one, too. We all passed Reta and at the first rest area we all pulled in, hoping the other Rialta would stop. We introduced ourselves to Reta and gave her many suggestions. Her problem was quite different from ours. So we spent a little time evaluating her problem and called one of our club members (Gene) to see if he could offer some assistance. Since the dreaded red light had not come on and her rig was running okay, Gene saw no reason for not going on to her destination. She wanted to join up with us for lunch before going on to her destination in Idaho. After a light lunch in the campground, we went shopping at Cabelo's, one of Amye's favorite things. Tomorrow we hope to be in West Glacier, MT.

4 Rialtas heading East.