On the road today in Oregon, we saw signs saying that you have to wear seat belts or face a $97 fine. Who picked that number? Poppa says that if they raised that to $97.31 it would really scare people into wearing their seat belts.
Then we crossed into Washington and the signs said "Seat belts required day AND night". I thought there were only two groups of people - those who wear seat belts and those who don't. Now it seems there are people who only wear them during the day and those who wear them only at night. Go figure.
We checked into a nice KOA campground in Castle Rock. The maintenance man helped Poppa get the trailer backed into the site on the umpteenth try. Poppa has been spoiled by pull-through sites and needs to find an empty parking lot for some practice.
The owner of the campground is from Cambridge Springs in Pennsylvania, where Autumn and Brenna's mommy and daddy were married:
This afternoon, we drove to Mount St. Helens, a volcano that erupted on May 18, 1980. Nana and Poppa visited it about 15 years ago, when things were still growing back and recovering. They wanted to see how it had changed since then.
We left the campground with sunny skies and 68 degrees. An hour later as we approached the Johnston Ridge Observatory, it was 41 degrees, raining hard, with 2" of slush on the road. We couldn't even see the volcano! By the time we drove back to the campground, it was sunny and in the 60s. This is the webcam picture of what we would have seen if we had stayed:
Tomorrow we're off to Seattle! We'll see Quinn and Tessa, who are Autumn and Brenna's cousins. I'll also meet my twin brother who lives with them. I've never seen him and I can't wait!
Posted from Nana's iPad
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