So, my left foot is still expressing its displeasure with my little stumble up the stairs on Sunday during the mad wasp attack. Then this morning, after hitching up the car, I got out to put the fuse back in and stepped into the recess for the sewer hose (placed in an odd spot at this park). Gave my right foot a little bit of a twist, but with all the extra reinforcement in there, it seemed fine. After sitting in the motorhome for a couple of hours, I discovered that the right foot is also not happy with my missteps. Neither foot is too bad, but just enough to make walking a bit uncomfortable (and probably not very graceful).
Interesting changes of scenery during our two hour drive from Spokane to Grand Coulee. Once we got on to Hwy 2 headed west, we found ourselves back in farm country, with crops as far as you could see. Only difference between here and Alberta is that it isn't flat. Then suddenly we were surrounded by nothing but rock and shrubs (looked like lava rock), then back to crops and then suddenly there are mountains and we are heading down into the Grand Coulee.
Interesting changes of scenery during our two hour drive from Spokane to Grand Coulee. Once we got on to Hwy 2 headed west, we found ourselves back in farm country, with crops as far as you could see. Only difference between here and Alberta is that it isn't flat. Then suddenly we were surrounded by nothing but rock and shrubs (looked like lava rock), then back to crops and then suddenly there are mountains and we are heading down into the Grand Coulee.
Without a doubt, this park (Steamboat Rock State Park) is the nicest park we have ever been in. Huge grass sites, with concrete pads for the RV (and gravel pads for tents), trees all around (although not as dense as our provincial parks), lots of space between the sites and lovely metal picnic tables. It is ridiculously hot here today. Not sure what the official high was, but our thermometer hit a high of just under 44 sitting on a table in partial sun, and the little guy on the display was stripped naked and sitting in a bucket of ice.
We decided to go for a swim in the lake to cool off, but the loop of campsites we are in is a bit of distance from the beach for my current walking limitations. So we jumped in the car, but discovered that there is no water's edge parking lot in the campsite, so headed down to the end of the road (about 1/2 mile away) to the day use area. Turned out to be almost as much of a hike from the parking lot there to the beach, but we made it, and had a refreshing dunk in the water.
A bit of reading, dinner, clean-up, some more reading, and deer in the campground again. Then around 10 we sat out for about a half hour trying to see the meteor shower, but had to give up before our necks got stiff and/or the bugs got too hungry. Robin saw one good one with a tail, and a few other flashes (may or may not have been meteors), and I saw one brief flash. Too tired to stay up longer. Maybe tomorrow night.
We decided to go for a swim in the lake to cool off, but the loop of campsites we are in is a bit of distance from the beach for my current walking limitations. So we jumped in the car, but discovered that there is no water's edge parking lot in the campsite, so headed down to the end of the road (about 1/2 mile away) to the day use area. Turned out to be almost as much of a hike from the parking lot there to the beach, but we made it, and had a refreshing dunk in the water.
A bit of reading, dinner, clean-up, some more reading, and deer in the campground again. Then around 10 we sat out for about a half hour trying to see the meteor shower, but had to give up before our necks got stiff and/or the bugs got too hungry. Robin saw one good one with a tail, and a few other flashes (may or may not have been meteors), and I saw one brief flash. Too tired to stay up longer. Maybe tomorrow night.