Some short walks. Quiet day.

This morning we had breakfast tacos from some camping bag meals. I love to buy those dehydrated bag meals, but we hardly ever eat them on our trips. Sometimes they just sound really good so I buy them anyway and so we have a lot! This trip I decided to bring the whole tub of them and that we WOULD eat them every few days.

Last night we had Ranchero Cheese Enchilada in a bag. It was good, but more than we could eat. I saved the leftovers in our travel fridge and mixed it up this morning with another bag meal, breakfast tacos (scrambled eggs, sausage, potatoes, peppers). I heated the whole thing and we ate it on flour tortillas with picante sauce and sour cream. Quite tasty! I do make the bag meals in a pan not the bag. I just heat the water in a pan and dump the bag of stuff in. Stir and let them sit for 10 or 15 minutes.

After breakfast we took a short hike over to the "town" of Newhalem. Really it is a park service installation in what was a camp for building a hydroelectric dam on the Skagit River. We walked through an old growth forest. Some trees escaped a big fire in 1922 and you could still see old snags from that fire 100 years ago. There's also a small hydroelectric plant from the 1920's. The gardens on the Newhalem site are beautiful. Lots of buildings still remain in use from the original camp over 100 years ago.

On our way back we took another path to visit a site used by first peoples for 1,200 years as a hunting and fishing camp. In the video I said 1,600 years, but that was incorrect per the posted materials at the site.

After a sandwich lunch we drove into the town of Marblemount for gas. The price was $5.25 per gallon. Its the most we've paid on the trip so far.

We decided this morning to alter our trip on Sunday. We had planned to go back the way we came in to swing by Lake Chelan, but the grade going back is long and steep. Its hard for our little 4 cylinder pickup to tow the camper up and up and up. Instead, we'll swing toward the Seattle area early Sunday morning and go south. We'll stay at another Fairfield Inn (more points) and we can shower, charge up all our electrics, and do our laundry. We'll be staying south of Mt Rainier on Monday and Tuesday so we can visit that park, too, before going further west to Olympic National Park later in the week.Læs mere