Post from Tom for September 10;
Could not get into the WiFi at this hotel so I am sending this email and hopefully Bob will be able to post it at some point.
Starting odometer was 4195,and we traveled 144.9 miles. Thus far 3194.4 on the odometer.
We had a leisurely breakfast and went to the Hoh rainforest which is part of the Olympic National park and one of the few temperate rainforests on the world. We stopped to look at a Sitka spruce that has a 12 foot diameter at chest height and is around 270 feet tall. Entering the forest, we took a walk stated at 3/4 mile. It took us over 1 1/2 hours, looking at the trees, mosses, and ferns. An ecosystem on the ground and a second in the air. The trees seemed larger than the first one we stopped to see. To me the best stop thus far. Then we moved on to the Pacific beaches and took a walk. We are in Aberdeen,WA now and will move into OR tomorrow.. We may have an opportunity to hook up with my daughter's in-laws on Friday and visit some of her favorite sugar high places.
By the way, out of Glacier National Park we were on US2 into Sultan and beyond. I won't even try to tell you all the roads we were on around Seattle when I got lost. On the peninsula we have been on US101. Starting north and then south as we moved around
Those trees are amazing, aren't they?
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