Beautiful drive from Centralia/Chehalis OR to Prospect, OR on Thursday. We are just a few miles from Crater Lake. We left the urban areas and eventually the interstate and drove along small town America. Farmers were busy plowing fields and dust was flying everywhere. The terrain changed again – back to mountains. We went from about 300 feet to just above 5,000 feet. Lots of streams and rivers – absolutely beautiful. It was raining in Chehalis but as we headed further south we started seeing blue skies – no smoke. We did pick up some smoke as we got closer to Crater Lake. We were in a beautiful campground. Very slow internet – no pictures. Friday, we drove to Crater Lake and drove around the rim. Absolutely beautiful. Saturday was our 39th anniversary and we celebrated it at the campground “hootenany” Saturday evening. They served hot dogs and s’mores and had live music. We had a very nice time making new friends. Sunday we took a drive to “Rabbit Ears”, two huge mountains – it was rough, bumpy miles up a forest service road. Left Prospect this morning headed to Shingletown, CA. We decided to take the interstate so the drive wouldn’t be so long, but with construction and Labor Day, we got stuck in traffic just outside of Mt. Shasta City. It took two hours to go 9 miles, so we got off and are staying in Mt. Shasta. We saw Mt. Shasta as we rode along. It was very smokey again today and there are fires all around. Hopefully, we will make it to Shingletown tomorrow where Lassen Volcanic National Park is. Finally, some pictures – these are from different places in Olympic National Park.
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