Today we are headed to Spokane and will spend the nite there getting ready to turn in the RV....that means packing and cleaning...yuck! After we left the campground this a.m. we went by the Windmill Forest (see pix)..it was amazing to see what people could use to make a windmill or at least a wind vane. Very interesting. We also walked across the dam of Banks Lake and got another view of our campground. Then we headed down the highway alongside the lake. This is a huge lake...miles long. We drove through the town of Coulee City and opted to continue for a few miles down the road to Dry Falls State Park.
What a fascinating place!!!! There was a Nova TV show done about this area and if you ever get a chance to watch it, it must be fascinating. There is VERY interesting geology of this area. Back in Ice Age, evidently there was a HUGE ice dam from Lake Helena in MT. and when it broke it sent an enormous amount of water down this river. They speculate that this canyon was carved out in a matter of weeks or a few months at most because of the volume of water that came through here....talk about a flood of Biblical proportions!!! We watched a very interesting movie at the visitor center. In the pictures of the canyon, the cliffs on the left and far wall were part of these enormous waterfalls that would have dwarfed Niagara Falls at that time....only a portion of the cliffs of the cascade could be seen....in fact we were about 800-1000' above the canyon floor and at the height of the water, it would have been over 300' over our heads! It really scoured the valley and took out all the loose stuff and then some! There is an area at the bottom called 10 Lakes (I think) that is a recreation area...we did not have time to explore.
We were only about 90-100 miles from Spokane so it was an easy driving day. When we got to Spokane, we drove straight to the RV rental agency and picked up the truck then headed for a really nice KOA campground. We figured we could pack and load the truck today, then spend a couple of hours in the a.m. cleaning up the RV. We got to the campground around fairly early. Jerry decided that although we had a waiver on cleaning the outside of the RV that it was really too dirty to turn in that way so we went to an RV wash and he was rushing to get the most out of the hose nozzles....RV looked much better when he was done. Back to RV park and packing....I needed prescriptions filled and a couple of things from Wal Mart so I headed out shopping while Jerry packed and loaded. I got back to RV park about 6:00 and finished up stuff.
Planned to work on blog tonite as they had Wi-Fi connections, but every time I tried to get on I had no luck.....finally went to office and turns out the server was down....I had really planned to get all caught up, but alas.....That's OK I guess b/c we were really tired and had no trouble falling asleep.
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