And so the adventure continues.
I’d written yesterday’s blog as Dale was driving. I’d finished up everything I could of the old and new work so wrote a little then put the computer away.
It was getting late, a little rainy and quite cold so I checked weather.com on my pda to see how quickly we could start inspecting claims. I was quite surprised when I found a list of weather alerts and found that many rivers were forecast to overflow. I got into CNN and the top story was that I-5 and all major roads into Seattle were closed. We then went to the roads site and found road closures all over the state of Washington. We stopped at the next rest stop and didn’t know what to think so drank some wine and went to sleep.
We woke up this morning and started for Portland while checking on the road conditions. Claims were still coming in and I was becoming more concerned as we needed to start setting appointments yet couldn’t even get into the Seattle area.
When we found that I-5 would be closed indefinitely we turned onto Highway 30 heading for the coast. We thought that we’d take the 101 up the coast and then turn inland on Highway 12 to Seattle. As we were driving we checked the roads again and found that 101 had closed due to landslide. We found a place to turn around and headed to the east thinking that we’d get to a road that would cut over the mountain pass and down into Seattle. As we traveled east we still were checking roads and found that the mountain passes had closed down.
We’d turned around and driven up I-5 to a rest stop close to the road closure where we were wondering what to do next. It was raining and cold as we sat in the truck when a man walked up. He told us that he owned an RV park that was not opened to the public yet but that they were opening it up to people stranded with RV’s. They would not charge any money and we would have full hookups. It didn’t take long for the offer to sink in and we drove to the RV park. Apparently, they have had some delays with permits so haven’t been able to open but beautiful roomy sites were all completed. We broke in the new bathrooms and showers.
Not many took advantage of the generous offer but we did park next to one RV and got to know the young man. Eli is in the military from Alabama and trying to get Ft. Meyers. He and his wife had just hiked the Ancient Inca trail and travel the world when they have time together. We talked cars and travel over wine.
As this would have been a birthday if I was having them still we thought that it would be fun to go out to dinner. We were advised to go to the Forty-Niner Café and that seemed like a good place to go since it was in the theme of my birth.
The Forty Niner was a fun little place; some fresh seafood, steaks and regular American food. With my desert they’d put a candle in the pudding and Dale and Justin sang “Happy Birthday”. This was certainly a birthday I’ll never forget.
I’d written yesterday’s blog as Dale was driving. I’d finished up everything I could of the old and new work so wrote a little then put the computer away.
It was getting late, a little rainy and quite cold so I checked weather.com on my pda to see how quickly we could start inspecting claims. I was quite surprised when I found a list of weather alerts and found that many rivers were forecast to overflow. I got into CNN and the top story was that I-5 and all major roads into Seattle were closed. We then went to the roads site and found road closures all over the state of Washington. We stopped at the next rest stop and didn’t know what to think so drank some wine and went to sleep.
We woke up this morning and started for Portland while checking on the road conditions. Claims were still coming in and I was becoming more concerned as we needed to start setting appointments yet couldn’t even get into the Seattle area.
When we found that I-5 would be closed indefinitely we turned onto Highway 30 heading for the coast. We thought that we’d take the 101 up the coast and then turn inland on Highway 12 to Seattle. As we were driving we checked the roads again and found that 101 had closed due to landslide. We found a place to turn around and headed to the east thinking that we’d get to a road that would cut over the mountain pass and down into Seattle. As we traveled east we still were checking roads and found that the mountain passes had closed down.
We’d turned around and driven up I-5 to a rest stop close to the road closure where we were wondering what to do next. It was raining and cold as we sat in the truck when a man walked up. He told us that he owned an RV park that was not opened to the public yet but that they were opening it up to people stranded with RV’s. They would not charge any money and we would have full hookups. It didn’t take long for the offer to sink in and we drove to the RV park. Apparently, they have had some delays with permits so haven’t been able to open but beautiful roomy sites were all completed. We broke in the new bathrooms and showers.
Not many took advantage of the generous offer but we did park next to one RV and got to know the young man. Eli is in the military from Alabama and trying to get Ft. Meyers. He and his wife had just hiked the Ancient Inca trail and travel the world when they have time together. We talked cars and travel over wine.
As this would have been a birthday if I was having them still we thought that it would be fun to go out to dinner. We were advised to go to the Forty-Niner Café and that seemed like a good place to go since it was in the theme of my birth.
The Forty Niner was a fun little place; some fresh seafood, steaks and regular American food. With my desert they’d put a candle in the pudding and Dale and Justin sang “Happy Birthday”. This was certainly a birthday I’ll never forget.
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