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![]() _Lake Chelan has always given us a warm welcome (or is it the family that lives there is doing that???) and this visit wasn’t any different. We joined a full lot of RV’s that arrived at the Mill Bay Casino in Manson about the same time as we did. Fortunately we were able to get one of their 50amp hook-ups and the opportunity to stay free for the week. Louise did spend some time across the parking lot, but fortunes were with her. She didn’t get rich but she did better than break even. Sue and Dean made us feel right at home at their beautiful home high above the lake and fed us extremely well. Dean and I made several trips down to Chelan each morning for coffee and then on one morning a drive to the top of Chelan Butte. Sitting high above the lake with all the cell towers and looking down, way down, the lake was amazing. It’s too bad that all who visit Lake Chelan don’t have the opportunity to make this drive. Just after driving off the main roadway out of town we made a left up the hill and immediately found our roadway turning to dirt and mud…not bad, but not a super highway either. Steep, oh ya… Looking down over the lake also shows just how many orchards there are ![]() _AND how many vineyards have grown over the last 10 or so years. ![]() _With this in mind we thoroughly enjoyed a little “wine tasting”. ![]() _Every once in awhile I get mad as hell because I either left my camera behind or I just didn’t take the time to use it. In taking a drive up to Fort Flagler to see Pug and Nancy Nickels (whom we first met at our 419 jamboree in Goshen, Indiana), I had so many opportunities to take a ton of great pictures, especially during the tour that Pug gave us of the fort but I didn’t put the camera up to my eye once, not even to get a picture of them... Pug has been giving a guided tour through the grounds of the fort almost from the first day they arrived for their host position this last August. He really made it a very interesting tour, not only to Louise and me, but to a group of young adults that we happened upon. You should also know that Nancy just isn’t sitting back and doing nothing…being a teacher, she has put together some amazing programs for the kids that are camping at the fort with their family. You’ve got to know that she’s quite an artist as well as a teacher. Fort Flagler is lucky to have them… I want to say at this point that visiting Fort Flagler State Park should be one of those “Must See” locations while visiting the state of Washington. A real surprise to us was to watch one of our “mighty stalwarts of the sea” pass by as it headed out to sea. While sitting in their coach and enjoying some great conversation and wonderful glass of wine, Pug noticed the sub being escorted out between two large Coast Guard tugs…what a sight !!! Pug, Nancy, thank you for all your hospitality…we had a great time, too short but great. |
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