Starting Mileage leaving Elma: 7537
Ending Mileage arriving Astoria, OR: 7640
Miles Driven: 103
Avg. MPG: 7.4
Gas Price: $4.09--Cosmopolis, WA
Travel Day
Overnight: Astoria, Oregon
Lewis & Clark Golf and RV Resort
We left Elma about 9:30 AM and headed for Astoria, Oregon. We had to go through Aberdeen, WA, again. So, I snapped these great pictures from the area.
The first is the Satsop Nuclear Power Station. It was never completed. Your tax dollars at work!
Next we saw a logging enterprise along the river.
And, here's a great shot of the beautiful old bridge that crosses from Aberdeen to Cosmopolis.
We stopped for gas in Cosmopolis and I noticed this sign on the road. I have never seen one of these before, so thought I'd share it with you as well.
The drive was mostly through logging areas. There were a lot of areas that were stripped. But, we also saw areas of newly planted forests. We passed many logging trucks, even some trucks that had double trailers loaded with logs.
When we were still in Washington and across the river from Astoria, we stopped at the visitor's center in Dismal Nitch. I inquired as to why it was named that (I don't know why I questioned it because we had passed several wrecked ships). I was told that when Lewis and Clark landed in this area, Lewis stated, "What a dismal nitch this place is."
I picked up several brochures from their "fly trap." We headed on across the bridge into Astoria. I thought this was a cool picture!
We took a bit of a scenic route getting to the campground. When you make a wrong turn, you see sights that you would never have seen otherwise. So, I always count it a good side trip!
After getting set up, Dave slept for most of the afternoon. There are a lot of sandpiper birds walking around the campground.
I forgot to take a picture of the campground. So this is a stock photo of the sites.
The campground is very new and is connected to a golf course. They do not have sewer available yet, but stated they had WIFI and CATV. Well, the WIFI only worked if we placed the laptop in the bedroom. Because Dave had messages he had to get out, he was cramped up on the side of the bed trying to email. I just considered it a lost cause for my purposes.
I fixed a penne pasta dish for dinner.
I finally sewed the buttons on a little sweater that I crocheted during our travels for my new grand niece, Kylinn Konovelchick. Finally, I'll get it mailed off to her tomorrow.
The TV signal was icky, so I didn't watch much and headed to bed a little earlier than usual. I finished reading the Lewis & Clark book that I had purchased some time ago.
Tomorrow we are going to try to find some information about Dave's great grandfather, Antione Migneault, who was killed in the logging accident in 1918 in the Skamokawa Forest in Washington (across the Columbia River from Astoria). His body was prepared by an undertaker in Astoria.
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