August 29, 2017
Departed Cache Creek early in order to meet our ferry in Washington State. Temperature was 61, warmest in a long time for early morning. We had only to drive into Cache Creek to start seeing the smoke from the BC fires.
The first couple of hours were along the Fraser River and the Fraser Canyon and the scenery was awesome.
The river had areas where it was forced smaller causing white water rapids, very beautiful.
Arriving at the US Customs we had a long (20 minutes) wait so we had our lunch of pimento cheese sandwiches in the line. Crossing was uneventful as we answered all the questions but mostly they were interested in our fruits and vegetables and they didn’t care about the blueberries, bananas and strawberries we bought in Canada but they confiscated our oranges from California. Who writes these rules? No questions about booze, firearms, bear spray so away we went south into Washington state. By now the temperature was 86 and we had wonderful sunshine. The remaining drive took us to Coupeville WA where the ferry leaves to go to Port Townsend. It was too full for us to get on for the one that was still in port so we waited for our reserved time of 4:15 PM but it was running late so we got away at 4:35 then had the 35 minute voyage arriving in Port Townsend, an interesting looking place - good enough for a destination, but alas
then another 28 mile drive to our campground in Sequim Bay State Park. Arrived about 6 PM, got set up, had happy hour and Iris made Frito Chili Pie, yum! No TV except one exceptionally clear channel of Jimmy Swaggart. No wifi so we hope to send this tomorrow.
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