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Fall Trip

01 Tuesday Nov 2022

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All trips are different, and this fall trip had numerous unexpected “life happens” events which resulted in a mostly unplanned trip/route with lots of driving.  Not a trip of slow exploration and searching for the middle of nowhere.  And at the end of the trip, I was chased home with unending rain and snow in the forecast.  Without much of a story to tell, I’ve simply shown some pictures below and included some informational facts that may help others plan a trip.  The trip was October 20 – November 8.  

I think I have driven by the sign directing one to the Maryhill Museum at least twenty times and have never taken the time to stop. This trip I stopped to see the museum.  What the museum contained was surprising and amazing. Maryhill Museum of Art | Fine Art in Southwest Washington   And the founder of the museum; Sam Hill, was equally interesting.  Samuel Hill – Wikipedia 

Looking south towards the Columbia River from the Maryhill Museum
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Nevada Calls

11 Monday Apr 2022

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After driving through Nevada last year in March, I knew I wanted to return.  I left Seattle the first week of April and had a generally plan to make a counter clockwise loop of the state.  But plans are made to be broken.  A cold weather forecast keep getting colder and the high winds warning area grew and the projected wind velocities kept increasing.  Snow entered into many forecasts.  I ended up at Kershaw Ryan State Park to hunker down for the bad weather.  

The winds are starting.
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Going West – The Olympic Peninsula, West Side

30 Saturday Oct 2021

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After seeing the north side of the peninsula, I headed southwest to Kalalock. This is a campground I remember as a kid going to a number of times in the winter. Yup – in the winter. My mom would hear that a storm was coming and off we would go to camp at the Kalalock campground in our Siesta trailer. We would then walk the beach looking for glass fishing floats caught in the logs. And we found a few not broken.

Kalalock Beach
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Going West – The Olympic Peninsula, North Side

24 Sunday Oct 2021

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This trip would be different.  There would be no searching for the middle of nowhere.  I left Seattle a month later then my usual time for a fall trip and snow had already fallen on Snoqualmie Pass making travel eastward seem cold.  So I headed west to the Olympic Peninsula.

Fort Worden looking west
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Evening Visitors

27 Saturday Feb 2021

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In the early evening, a clanging noise from my metal trailer step startled the dogs and got them barking.  Hum, I thought it must be the metal contracting as the air cooled.  I looked outside into the dark and didn’t see anything.  The next night about the same time I heard quiet metal noises on/off for a half an hour.  Once again I looked outside and didn’t see anything.  I kept looking outside.  All I could think of, was that a RV had joined me at my camp site but I didn’t see them.  I had found this camp site on the web so it wasn’t a secret place.  Ghost campers?  But when I took the dogs out for their 8:00 pm piss/poop walk there was no new campers at my spot.  Hum.  A mystery.  

The next morning I found small scat left on my outdoor rug.  Phil told me he had seen fox in the area.  Perhaps fox scat?  The metal noise could have come from my dog fence as the animal scurried around maybe investigation the dog smells.  

Fox scat?
My dog fence

Humongous Fungus

06 Sunday Oct 2019

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I’m staying at John Day for the month of October volunteering at Kam Wah Chung.  While there I’m exploring the area.

The tourist brochure for Grant County listed the top 20 tourist sights and included the Humongous Fungus with a note to see the chamber of commerce or forest service for more information.  My interest was perked.  The Humongous Fungus was in the top 20 sites to visit in Grant County!  I located the chamber of commerce office and went in to get the information on this interesting site.  The gentleman there had heard of it but couldn’t find any information on it.  He couldn’t remember if he had ever visited it.  He suggested I visit the forest service office, so off I went.  At the forest service office the lady looked around a bit and then found the information for me.  Then she pointed on the map (that she gave me) where I should go to see the Humongous Fungus.  When I pointed out to her that the area wasn’t where the map located the Humongous Fungus, her reply was: “it is all the same.”  I was getting more intrigued about the Humongous Fungus. It didn’t appear to be a hot tourist spot.

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Armillaria ostoyae, the humongous fungus.  Photo from Scientific America.

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Riddle Brother’s Ranch

29 Sunday Sep 2019

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Another abandoned ranch.  Without a plan, this seems to be a theme for this trip. In this fast world, it is calming to see items made by hand slowly.  I slowly look at how things were cobbled together.  Yet I imagine that the Riddles may have found pleasure in our easy to purchase manufactured world.  They had a hard life.

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A short walk west of the Riddle buildings.

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