Day 10, June 25, 2010
The laser show was really nice. Today we ate breakfast at Flo’s Restaurant. Floyce got a mug and a shirt. I’m looking for a place called Gene’s Joint or something like that. After breakfast, we took a tour of the dam and generating plant. Wow! It was really impressive. Heading on west on highway 155 then 17 and eventually Highway 20 toward Bellingham. The country is extremely rolling and rugged. The ground is extremely rocky but they farm parts of it anyway. The trucks that we see that come down from Canada are mostly doubles some with triple axle trucks and four axle trailers. As we head further west the ground is becoming more rugged and rolling. There is a lot of evidence of volcanic action here in the past. Much volcanic rock even as large as boulders. We have entered an area where cherry trees are everywhere. Cherries are ripe and pickers are in the orchards picking. We saw a special made trailer used to transport the boxes of cherries to the processing plant. On across Washington toward Bellingham where we will be able to depart tomorrow for Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island. On the way we crossed over the Cascade Mountain Range. It was not as high as the Beartooth mountains or Glacier National Park. Never the less, with the snow capped peaks, they were beautiful. The trees along the roadways are so very dense. I don’t think you would be able to see more than 100 feet into the woods from the road. We got our tickets and will spend the night in Ferndale, close to Bellingham. Tomorrow we will take the ferry over to see the gardens.