Category: Washington

Spring Trip Wrap Up and Fishing – June 15, 2016

We started our Spring travels going to Mariner’s Spring training and finished up in Yellowstone for two weeks.   We’ll leave in August for Zion and Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloon Festival.

Motor Home miles: 4864
Tow car miles: 1619  with 647 of those miles in Yellowstone
Gas: 780 gallons

Yellowstone trip fuel priced ranged from $2.22 to $2.73 306 gallons.

In the last two years we have traveled 18,159 miles in the motor home and 5,349 in our tow car.

Fishing
This is the largest lowland’s lake trout I have ever caught – 17 inches, 1.5 pounds. I have this picture thanks to Jeremy and Steven who came with me on Monday.  I got a BIG fish however fishing was slow.
Here are the two fish I caught Monday June 13, 2016.
Here are the fish from today (Wednesday June 15, 2016).  When the fish are biting it’s easy, I was off the lake at 9:30.  The one on the left is 15 inches and weighed 1 1/4 pounds.

Home to the Big House – Wednesday June 8, 2016

We have returned to the big house after our spring travels.  Will be here for June, July and leave again in the small house towards the end of August.

Our spring travels started in February to Arizona for spring training with a trip by the big house for a while and finished up with a trip to Yellowstone.
Today’s travels.

The May – June leg of our Spring trip.

Liberty Lake – Spokane County Park – Tuesday June 7, 2016

We are in site RV13 on a warm day, 94.  Will be here one night, not a bad place when nobody is here. The rock parking spots are 13 feet apart.  Our large slide is taking up 2 feet of our neighbor’s 13 feet.

Update:  We will never stay here again the sites all steep and the people who stay here are urban idiots.  Two groups who came in after us acted surprised they would have to pay for their site, the sign on the camp host site said “Off Duty”. I think they both planned on leaving early the next morning before the host was “On Duty”.  One group had two additional cars come in just before dark and both cars left at 6:30 a.m. and the original campsite owner left at 7:00 a.m.   The restrooms were cleaned in the morning however he left puddles in the men’s side that looked about an inch deep.  

Maps:
Today’s drive

Campground location

Aerial of campground

Wanapum State Park, WA – Sunday May 15, 2016

Here is today’s drive, in site 8 will add campsite picture later.

Both Jean and I commented today that it was nice to be back out on the road.  We will be moving East with the goal of being at Yellowstone Natl Park on Monday May 23rd.  We cannot get there early because we already have reservations for two weeks and that is the max time at Madison Campground. 

Seems warmer on this side of the mountains with a few sprinkles this afternoon.  At 8:30 this evening it started to RAIN so it might be a “Listen to the rhythm of the falling Rain” kind of night.

Campsite 8.

Looking out towards the Columbia.