Pullin' Chocks

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Union Gap, WA

We finally made it to our Yakima, Washington goal! We have been scheming on getting here for many, many years and this month the dream became reality. We are very happy and enjoying the area we call Yakima, Washington. Actually we are in the outskirts in a small rural town called Union Gap. There is a Lowe's in Union Gap, but the closest Walmart is actually in Yakima, but that's not far away. So we have everything we need and are enjoying the area and weather. Yakima is sometimes known as the Palm Springs of Washington. I believe that is because of the fine weather. It rarely rains here, although we did have a shower blow through yesterday. I doubt there was a 1/10 of an inch of rain over 3 hours and the wind didn't get over 3 mph. It did keep the sun from becoming so hot.

We are working with Gari's dad on his pet project, which is the restoration of a 1942 Willy's Jeep. Dad got it from a local family that had lost their son in Vietnam. The hero's parents hung onto his Jeep as a keep sake. The son had named the Jeep Ol' Snort. Dad is lovingly restoring Ol' Snort and will maintain her in respectful memory of the previous owner and our country's fallen hero.

We departed the Moses Lake area and headed west and we found ourselves approaching a bridge over the Mighty Colombia River.

We stopped at the first rest stop west of the Colombia River Gorge. It was up and out of the river gorge and the wind blew quite strong there. We saw a bunch of wind generators there as well as the awesome sight of Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams

We weren't sure if we could get our rig onto Gari's dad's street or if we could fit into the available parking area. Happily we were able to negotiate both. This is where we've parked Pepe and Penelope on Locust Ave.