Well, its vacation week.  We left this morning and drove from Tenino up I-5 to Arlington and jumped on 530 East headed for Twisp, WA.  The drive over the mountains was spactactular.  The Northern Cascades are know as the American Apls.  There were spots where the mountain sides towered over us 5-6000 feet straight up.

At one point the jagged edged saw-tooth snow-capped mountains were right there ahead of us.  Beautiful, thats all I can say.  Winthrop/Twisp area is kind of like going back a 100 or so years.  Western themed ranching country.

We took a drive up the Twisp River Road thinking that it would lead us to some small stream fishing.  When we found a nice spot we pulled over to the side of the road and asked the rancher if we could fly fish the river through his property.  He said "Well, I guess you could but fishing doesn't open here until July 1st."  Oops.  It is only June 19th.  That could have been an expensive mistake.  

We continued on up the mountain road and took a side road that lead us up to Black Pine Lake.  It was 8 miles up a dirt road to the lake.  At mile marker 6 the truck started to make a real loud clicking sound near the transfer case so we turned around and started down the mountain, praying all the while that God would get us home without a long, lonely, dark walk.  As soon as we turned on to the highway the sound started to get more and more faint.  

Les Schaub is only a couple of miles up the road and we will be there Monday morning bright and early.  Hope they can fix it!

We are in Riverside RV Park, Twisp, WA.  What a beautiful place.  The Methow river is 25 feet away.  Only grass and wild roses between me an the water.  Oooo.  Tomorrow the Methow and I have a date.  Time for doing the dinner dishes.  Then some quality time with LOLA.  Now were talking!