Day 20 Olympic National Park

Took another ferry crossing today, this time with the camper. We are now camped in Olympic National Park. These 3 pictures were all taken in the park. We happened on this beautiful rainbow driving along Cresent lake. The owl was seen while driving on the road back to Olympic Park Huh rain forest. The bull elk was in our campground when we arrived. Also we are back in the wilderness, and still have internet access. Some National Parks have cell phone service at the visitor centers, and that is what I use for internet service.

Day 19 San Juan Islands

Today we headed for Anacortes not knowing whether or not to take the ferry out to the San Juan islands. It had been raining all morning and it was cold. The ferry rates were not too bad, so we decided to go. One of the following pics show the 2 ferries where we had to switch ferries at Lopez island. Then we went on to San Juan island where we had lunch at the town of Friday Harbor, looking out over the harbor as shown in one of the pics. We met Marty on the second ferry, and he told us everything we needed to know about the San Juan islands. He also lives in the town of Friday Harbor. We wanted to go whale watching on the other side of San Juan island, but the place to watch was 10 miles on the other side of the island. This is the off season so the only way way to get there was taxi or rent a car, all too expensive. At 4:15 we caught the ferry back to our starting point. These ferries, the biggest one can haul 2000 persons and 200 cars. It was a great ride, very few people. The islands are very pretty, probably better if the sun was out, and not raining. Tonight we are camped in an RV park that is part of an Indian Casino. Haven't went gambling yet. Tomorrow we put the truck on another ferry and head across this body of water, on the way to Olympic National Park. This will be another area without internet access, so I don't think I will be able to post anything for several days.

Day 18 Boeing tour

We went on the Boeing tour today. It was very exciting. We toured the huge hangers where they assemble the 747,767,777, and the new 787 planes. This building is so huge it could have 17 football fields inside. It is 90 acres all one floor, 4 stories tall. The first 787 won't fly until Nov. Future of Flight aviation center is an area with simulators, parts of aircrafts, engines, etc. In the first picture below, Barb and I are Flying a 787. In the second picture, the plane you see over the Boeing factory has never landed before. It is being flown by the Boeing test pilots for the first time. They had told us in the gift shop that is was about to take off. We were not allowed cameras on the tour so I was heading for the truck to get the cameras. I saw it start to take off, then abort the landing. They have to test brakes and reversing engines. I got the cameras and went into the building heading with Barb for the top floor observation area. We heard it take off before we made it. We did wait around for it to land. The other 2 pictures are of the huge assembly hangers with huge murals on the doors.