171 miles today. There was a light rain, but nothing to worry about. The landscape changed from the mountains to ranch land to corn fields and then a beautiful area around the Columbia River and the Vantage Bridge.

Columbia River

Tomorrow we will arrive at the west coast of Washington and plan to spend several days there while we do some sightseeing. But for tonight we found a very nice little RV park near Ellensburg. The Yakima River RV Park is part of a working bull ranch and we find ourselves surrounded by the bulls on both sides.

Yakima RV Park

The RV park closes for the season on September 30, which is just 5 days from now! And that reminds us that it may get challenging to find places to stay until we are ready to move south for the winter. Oh well, there’s always Walmarts and casinos. There are probably some year-round parks around. We’ll be fine.

• Gasoline:  none
• Lodging:   $21 (Passport America discounted rate)