Made it to Randle

Randle, Washington         High 89 Low 60

When we got here it was very warm but later this afternoon we had thunder showers with a little hail which cooled us off.

We are staying at The Cascade Peaks RV Park. This is the kind of Park that if we weren't getting it free, we would look elsewhere. I thought the last Park didn't have much going for it but this one has less. We have 30 Amp power which with one AC will be plenty and we are only staying 2 nights. The reason we are here is because it is about half way between the last campground and the coast. Also because of some of Coast to Coast's rules. With all that said, we will be fine here. The sites are long and wide with some grass. They don't seem to be very busy, so there is plenty of room between us and our neighbors. we were told to just find a site we wanted and leave the card the lady in the office made out for me on our power pole. This end of the country seems to be more laid back about which sites are used than we are used to.

On the way here we had to go up a fairly steep hill that seemed to go on for miles. Then when we got to the top there were many miles of down grade. When we started up the hill, either a grey fox or a coyote ran across the road in front of us. It was a little way ahead and was up the hill so fast that I couldn't be sure which it was.

We stopped at one view area and got a good view of Mount Rainier. It was pretty impressive.
Mount Rainier is the highest mountain in the Cascade Range and the highest in the state of Washington.

While we were going through the small town of Packwood we noticed a lot of wood carvings. We knew we wanted to go back and get some pictures of the Liquor Store/ Fabric Store, so we waited till we went back to get pictures of the carvings.

This one is in front of the town Library.

 

 This totem pole is in front of a museum in Packwood.

The Fabric store is attached to the liquor store and a couple own both sides. We thought that was kind of unique. I guess the men get to go buy booze while the wife shops for fabric.

 

And guess what? We didn't buy any fabric!

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 These two are in front of ............................The Town Fire Station!

This looks like a lot of intricate carving.

 

 These last two were some carvings we found in the Park where we are staying.

 We have been in this area before, so we will just hang out till Friday when we move further West.

Thanks for visiting.