Where's an Ewok when you want one?

Alright. It really needs to stop raining. The whole “everything is wet all the time” thing is getting old fast. It seems like we’re constantly driving into another storm. It sucks. A lot. We thought we were going to have a day of no rain in Seattle, which would have been kind of ironic, but it lived up to its name anyways. The good news, however, is that we hit the west coast for real today and are on the Pacific Coastal Highway (101). This means that there should be fewer storms that are stuck in between mountains for us to drive through and hopefully less rain altogether.

Now that I’m done griping about the weather, here’s the lowdown on Olympic National Park: its holy crap awesome! Its like a different planet out here; moss grows on EVERYTHING and really gives the place an extraterrestrial look and feel. Im sure Mike already made this observation, but whenever I’m walking around here, I half expect a fuzzy little Ewok to be just hanging out behind a tree. The park really feels like I’m on set for the Battle of Endor. The trees are huge; there are vines, all sorts of little creatures around and plenty of fallen trees to climb. I just cant get over how cool this place is! I went in expecting big mountains and that’s about it. But now, I’d love to come back to have a chance to explore it a bit more thoroughly. Based off of this, I cant wait to see what Redwood National will look like!

Anyways, as I said before, we’re on Pacific 101, so here’s the progress update:



We’ve still got a loooong way to go before we’re done with 101, and to give you an idea of distance, we’ll be on it until we get to San Francisco. So yeah, it’s going to be a long haul. The next stop for us will be somewhere just over the Washington/Oregon line at a campsite somewhere along the coast, ideally Point Lookout as it would minimize tomorrow's driving time. I’ll try to keep you posted, and until then, I’m going to eat some food.