9-28-2018

9-28-18 Penrose Point State Park

            We were scheduled to go last week.  Got everything and everyone packed up and the truck wouldn’t start.  It turned over, but that’s all.  I noticed the fuel pumps were silent, so that narrowed it down quite a bit.  Both pumps were silent.  Spent several hours looking over wiring diagrams and fuel system layout.  Turns out the tank selector switch was bad.  Not actually a difficult fix. 

            We got a late start this evening.  Traffic was terrible through Tacoma, 6 accidents reported between us and the Narrows bridge.  We didn’t leave till 7pm which put us in at 8:30. I really don’t like maneuvering into a camp site in the dark.  I turned on all the exterior lights on the camper.  Didn’t help at all.  

9-29-18

            This is the last weekend the upper loops are open.  There are a lot of sites here.  More than I thought there would be.  Looks like if we wanted to come up in the summer, we would need to be careful with reservations.  A lot of them are good for tents and cars, but leveling the camper would be difficult to impossible.  

            Spent the day doing nothing.

9-30-18

            The evergreen huckleberries are thick on the bush.  Lorena spent a lot of time gathering.  Found some Shaggy Mane mushrooms. 

            I will always wonder about grandpa’s camping log entry about this park.  We really enjoy it here.