Friday, July 12 What a difference the other side of the mountain range makes! We slept with every window in the camper open – not because it was hot, but just because we enjoyed the dry air after weeks in high humidity/rain forest environment. We stepped out of the Silvermine in the morning to a sunny 65 degrees prompting Tom to fix eggs and sausage for breakfast. We only had 125 miles to travel today, but at the midway point we had to stop for the Grand Coulee Dam. When it was built, the Coulee dam was the largest concrete structure built in the WORLD! Still is today! The facts about the height, thickness, cubic feet of concrete and comparison to Egyptian pyramids (it dwarfs them!) go on and on. When the dam was finished in 1942 four cities sprang up around it: Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, Electric City, and Elmer City. We stopped at several overlooks and the visitor center for pictures. From there it was thirty-five miles to Riverside State Park/9-mile Recreation Area – it took us 2 hours! Everything combined (maps, ranger directions, GPS, Tom’s usual inborn sense of direction) to give us bad advice to end up at our campground. That’s all I’m going to say about that! Because of the awful time getting here we were prepared to hate everything about the campground. Surprisingly it was a very nice small, water-based (Spokane River) campground. We were on the second row/tie overlooking the riverr, and backed into a nice site with grass, a shade tree and a nice sit-out view of the water. We sat out (with drinks) to recover from the trauma of getting there! Later – rib-eyes and scallops.
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October 2021
We don’t go camping any more . . . we go ‘streamin’ ! The “SIlvermine and His” is our 2018 25' Airstream Serenity with Salsa interior and front twin beds., and ‘streamin’ is the name we use to describe our adventures. Stream along as we document everything from weekend trips to longer summer excursions and full-blown vacations. You know what they say: if you’re not in an Airstream – you’re just camping!
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