Eastward Ho!

Carole is anxious to go home. So on Monday morning we packed up and pointed "The Bus" Eastward. It rained all night, misted all morning, and was to remain cloudy all afternoon . . . except that the Seattle weatherman said we could see "bursts of sunshine". Only in Seattle! It will be good to get out of this wet weather.

The first part of our journey over the Cascade Mountains was pretty, with the clouds hovering around the tops of the mountains and in places the mountains actually disappeared into the clouds.

However, when we passed over the summit and dropped down on the other side of the mountain range, we saw some blue sky and the sun was shining in places. The clouds were still hovering around the mountain tops, but it was actually warm.


When we descended into the valley, we began seeing a lot of vineyards and orchards, probably apples and cherries.


We then passed by many fields of table crops. I wasn't able to identify all of them, but the field pictured below is obviously pole beans . . . and that field had to be nearly 100 acres in size. That's a lot of beans!


If you click on the picture, you can see that the whole field is full of stakes, poles, and stringers for the bean plants to climb on. That has to be a very labor intensive operation.

It was getting late in the afternoon and we needed to find a place to spend the night. We knew we were in Washington's wine country, but when we saw the Wine Country RV Park on Merlot Drive just off of Wine Country Road, we just had to stop for the night. We knew this was our place.

We were in the town of Prosser and this RV Park was really nice. All of the sites were pull-thrus on concrete pads with manicured grass in between.

Then when we looked over brochures of the area and discovered that there are 45 wineries in the vicinity, most with tasting rooms, we knew we had to stay here for at least a couple of days to check it out.

We'll get on with our "Eastward Ho!" mission a few days from now. It'll wait 'till we do a little "discovery" here.