This river scene triggers my memory! Camped near this river long ago with my parents (I was about 15 years old) on a little trip from over the Cascade Mountains chain from Seattle to this eastern side of Washington State where the climate is much different - much dryer and warmer (and hot) in the summer months. My dad had a 4 person camp-tent folded neatly on top of the carrying rack mounted on our 1951 Buick that we would set up. Also on the front of the car was a canvas covered water carrying bag (canteen) with a rope handle that looped over the hood ornament. One would try to keep the outside of the bag wet for evaporation cooling of the water inside. It, the front of the car, and that bag - would get quite a few splattered dead insects that would accumulate. Car had no air-conditioning. All the windows would be down and the hot wind would really blow through as we traveled the highways. Those were far different times then. Washington state's overall population was small then. And, not lots of people visited this state way up in the northwest corner of the U.S. It was sort of an out-of-the-way place in the U.S. back then. I would not feel especially safe camping along this river in today's times, even though this acene has changed little - as shown here. Regrettably things have changed alot, this state became discovered, (as they say), when there was a world's type fair held in Seattle in 1960, the site where Seattle's Space Needle now stands. Washington was really a paradise of its' kind back then.

said stoneycreeks 2008.05.22 at 15:34:41 PDT