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45th Stop - Olympic National Park (WA)

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Blog Post #56 - Written March 9, 2026 Stay: August 28-30, 2025 So I have to say again that we might have a blackberry problem.  Like we were driving along this beautiful bay and saw some blackberry bushes along the side of the road.  There were also people down looking for something in the marshes, so naturally, we decided to pull over (we were lucky to find a pull-off big enough to accommodate the truck+trailer on this winding mountain/lakeshore road).  We picked our blackberries, then hiked down to discover what was so exciting.  There was one group looking for salmon (we found none).  But the other man was collecting oysters. He was from southeast Asia and love coming here to collect oysters for his family meal like he used to do in his home country.  He let the boys help him collect some in the muck as well! A quick wipe down and then we were off to our campground. Megan indulging in her balckberry-collecting addiction Our campground (Elwha Dam RV Park)...
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44th Stop - Union, WA

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Blog Post #55 - Written March 6, 2026 Stay: August 27, 2025 So, I don't really have any pictures of our stay in Union, but we had a really neat time at this Boondockers Welcome (another RV camping group, related to Harvest Hosts but free) home.  Our host Patt was a wonderfully kind lady who ruled her yard from the most epic cross-country electric wheelchair.  Her yard was quite an ordeal to get into.  We booked it up a steep, wet, dirt driveway, and miraculously didn't get stuck.  Before us was a road that was entirely surrounded by trees and a couple of RV "sites", again surrounded by trees.  A long term camper helped us park, which involved a few 20 point turns, and we were finally settled in.   We got chatting with a few of the campers.  One man had been on the road for about 3 years after leaving his custom home building business.  His favorite place was Baja California, with winters full of whales and dolphins and beautifully affordable ...
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43rd Stop - Mt. Rainier, WA

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Blog Post #54 - Written March 6, 2026 Stay: August 24-26, 2025 If you needed a place on Earth to remind you of the infinite beauty and awe-inspiring power of God, Mt. Rainier would be it.  Whether at our campground at the base of the mountain or hiking the trails around it, I felt so remarkably humbled.   We drove into Mt. Rainier National Park and pulled off to a fabulous overlook.  The mountain was snowcapped in the background, and the valley below was perfectly echoic.  And so we enjoyed a few moments of shouting at the top of our lungs.   We had a couple of hikes we planned to do, but decided to explore most of the little pit stops along the path.  We passed this glacial white waterfall and flipped a U-Turn to go check it out.  The water flowed down massive boulders until it fell down the rock face into a churning waterfall.  The cliff face alongside the waterfall was warped from higher water flow.  We followed the rocks down to...
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