Mountain, Lake and Beach in One Day!

April 15^th (Wednesday):

      This morning after getting free coffee and tea in the casino we headed west on Route 101 stopping in a town called Sequim where we went into a thrift store called “Serenity Thrift Store”. Scott found two nice shirts and fishing pole racks. And I found three c.d.’s for three dollars. We definitely could use more music for our road trip. So it’s kind of fun to pick out random music at thrift stores and be surprised at what you hear when you push play.

      There was a friendly park ranger we met at one of the visitor centers who gave us an overview of Olympic National Park…what’s worth seeing and hiking. We decided to first take the drive up to Hurricane Ridge which offered the most beautiful mountain range I’ve ever seen in person. We spotted several deer along the road and a few people who were hiking in the snow. It’s that weird transition time where there’s not enough snow to ski and too much to enjoy hiking. If we had snowshoes we probably would’ve used them.

      From there we drove along a beautiful lake called Lake Crescent and stayed the night for free on the Quileute Indian Reservation. We made dinner in the parking lot overlooking “First Beach”, listening to the waves crash against the large rocks. Then made Scott watch the movie Twilight because it was based out of Forks, Washington. It was fun to recognize the local areas mentioned in the movie such as the Quileute Indian Reservation, La Push beach and Port Angeles…as we had driven right by or onto these areas.