Saturday June 13, 2015

This morning I was woken up at about 5:00 by the mourning doves, I managed to put ear plugs in and sleep for another hour. We were both away by 6:00 and ready to get moving.

We packed up the tent which was wet from the dew, and decided to go down the road for breakfast.

The Ranchman restaurant welcomed us in and our waitress knew everyone by name. We had a great “Seniors” breakfast – 55 years or older yeah we got a discount and a great breakfast.

We headed out to Seattle on a fairly busy road, but it had a wide shoulder. I spotted the first vintage car – Model T-Ford. I stopped expecting Ralf to get his camera out, but he said he had missed it, then the next one came along then a row of about 20 or more. He managed to snap a few photos.

As we came through this Town both of us had to laugh at this sign – Mixed-Use Zoning regulations in place.

We got our first view of Mount Rainier today. Mount Rainier is one in a row of volcanoes that are being monitored. Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier and Mount Baker.

I am not sure how they know which way the eruption will go if and/when it goes, but they have an evacuation route. We weren’t going in that direction.

The road didn’t start getting hilly until we got closer to the outskirts of Seattle and Burien. We arrived at Ed and Barb’s place around 3:30 pm. We set up the tent so that it could dry out and then got settled in and chatted to Ed and Barb. We went out for dinner to a really nice Thai restaurant. It was really good to have some good Thai food.