Maybe Spring is here!

 3-20-2023

I noticed the first daffodil to bloom this year, maybe spring is really here.

3-21-2023

I have been looking for a van for several weeks. I  found one with low mileage and the features I wanted on Facebook Market Place.  After the first buyer backed out of the purchase he messaged me and told me it was available again.  As soon as James heard about it he volunteered to come help us drive it back as it was located in Wenatchee.  We really appreciated his help all day, he kept an eye on us and checked often to see if we needed anything.  We left our place at 9:30, and as we went through Randle we ran over and showed him where Vera grew up.  The area has changed quite a bit and all the trees had been logged off.  You can barely see the house on the left side of the picture.

This is the view that Vera grew up seeing out their East kitchen window.

We stopped at the Packwood rest area and James sent his mom a picture of this milk truck.  When she went to college in Ellensburg she always seemed to get behind one coming over White Pass.

This is one of the burn areas we saw going over White Pass.

This is a view point on White Pass that looks back at the Goat Rocks that Vera could see from their house.

James took over driving at Yakima.

These brown and white tarps covered piles of hay bales were everywhere as we headed North from Yakima.

Just before we got to the Wenatchee National Forest we went through a windmill area, they were all over the place.

I saw several building I wanted pictures of but never had the camera or a phone ready.  James spotted this one well in advance so I got one picture of a classic shaped barn for the blog.

There were a lot more burned areas in the Wenatchee National Forest.  We got to the guys house about three thirty, James and I took the van for a quick test drive and then I paid for it.  We headed right back home with two stops, one for gas in Wenatchee and one in Packwood for snacks.  We made it back home about nine thirty and had covered about 500 miles today.

3-22-2023

Vera had bible study today and I started learning what some of the controls did in the caravan.

It is a 2012 Dodge Grand Caravan, I got the inside cleaned up and organized the way I want it today.  Learning how to operate the Stow and Go seats took a while but I think it will go better next time.

Tomorrow it will probably get a wash job as there was lots of spray when we met other traffic coming over the pass.