Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Manchester State Park, Washington

Friday night we got home from work, packed the RV, nuked leftovers, then left for the park. It's nice to drive across the Narrows Bridge and see the progress on the 2nd bridge. It's going up incredibly fast. It will be strange to have 2 Narrows Bridges. All my life it's been The Bridge.

Anyway, we were camped by 7:45. It drizzled on the way over so we decided to skip a fire. Dave plugged us in and we got caught up on magazine reading. A nice thing about this campground is the occasional sound of barking seals. Funny to hear it in the middle of the woods though. Then we started to watch Hostage.

Saturday morning we ate cereal and finished watching Hostage. Good Bruce Willis movie.

Then we walked through the campground down to the water. We saw the old torpedo warehouse and the gun battery. The trail meanders around the point and beside the water. Along the way we climbed down to the beach and admired the views. A seal barked at us. Then we turned into the woods, climbed stairs and startled a deer at the top. We entered a clearing and saw lots of flowers.It was a great walk.

The sun was starting to peek out so we decided to have a Java Log fire. Our site is large and private. It was so relaxing to journal and read by the fire.Late in the afternoon we took another walk. Then Dave started another fire. I made chili (from a can) for dinner and we ate outside.

This was the perfect camping weekend. Close to home but in a different world. We even left the laptop at home.

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