Arrived in Winthrop, Washington – about 2 hours from the Canadian Border and settled into the RV Park (http://www.pinenearpark.com/), the sites are on grass and are very spacious. We liked the area so much we extended for 2 extra nights to give us time to look around properly and also to relax a little after 2 big days driving.
The town is a pretty town, very “oldie worldie” with wooden boardwalks and covered veranda’s. The shops are a variety of gift shops, coffee shops and supermarkets/gas stations etc.
We have had 2 days of rain so a little sunshine is appreciated, we could walk through the Shafer Museum grounds and down a pretty boardwalk, through a covered bridge over a little brook and we were in town.
Did a little shopping in the Boutique and took photos of the town, had coffee and wandered in and out of most shops.
Met Geri and Kim who are part of the Escapee Club (we are members, they manage our mail forwarding, have RV parks we can use and have helped us immensely to get set up and organised since we arrived). Geri and Kim are members of a Washington Chapter, this means they travel as a group or caravan, 3-4 times a year to different destinations and organise interesting tours and visit new areas as a group. We were very kindly invited to join the group for dinner, giving us opportunity to meet everyone else, we had a wonderful time. Backgrounds were shared, ideas for travel and places to visit and some great conversation was the extent of the evening.
A few days later they were going to the Smokejumpers for a tour, and we were invited along, which we gladly accepted. (https://www.northcascadessmokejumperbase.com/), smoke jumpers are highly trained individuals that parachute into a fire area and fight the fire first hand, sleep on the ground and then trek back out when the fire is extinguished, very skilled and dangerous job.
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