We drove north on Highway 97 through lovely farmland, with Mt. Adams in the background.
We stopped in Yakima, Washington, to walk around and find lunch. We had a really good grilled sandwich at a
bakery/cafe and bought a loaf of artisan bread to take home.
Downtown Yakima
is very nice and looks very much alive and well.
From there we continued north to Wenatchee,
Washington.
The drive was very scenic. We
stayed at Lincoln Rock
State Park for two nights. This is another really nice state park, on
the Columbia but the part that runs
north/south, so it wasn't as windy. This
is a very family-oriented park, with lots for kids to do. We did some biking around the park, but the
new bike path into town wasn't open yet.
This is the view from our backyard. The cliff is Lincoln Rock because someone thought it looked like President Lincoln's profile.
One of the neatest features of the park is the resident
yellow-bellied marmots. They were
everywhere, quite bold until someone tried to approach them.
Late in the evening of the second night, a young couple from
Lebanon (now Seattle)
arrived in the space next to us. After
watching them struggle with a new tent, we went over and offered to help. It took a while, (and one of us actually
reading the instructions!) but we finally got it up. They thanked us profusely and rewarded us
with a bag of delicious roasted nuts that her family produces in Lebanon.
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