Finally in Washington

After driving 563 miles today, much of it in the mountains, we are finally in Washington.  We are in near central WA.  Seems like once we crossed the border all we saw was sage brush, cattle, and scrub brush.  There was one section where potatoes were grown, and a few corn fields, but mostly dry brushy flat land, that eventually turned into hills. (still wearing brush and scrub trees.)  Each time we have driven through this area of the state, I am amazed at the contrast between Eastern WA and the coastal areas.  One is a desert, the other has many rain forests.  We have already been blessed by seeing the wonders of God's hands, tomorrow we will cross the Cascades.  We are taking a different route then we took on our last trip.  The route we are taking will have 2 passes, each around 5000 ft.  We are less than 300 miles from Bellingham, sounds close, but it will take us a long time to get through the Cascades.   We plan to find a campground in the area and reserve it before we start driving for the day tomorrow.  We want to replenish supplies and do some laundry before we head for Vancouver Island on Saturday.  

We are camped in Ellenburg,  at a campground that is in the parking lot of a Days Inn.  It was the only campground we could find.   My guess is that they had so many campers stop and ask if they could park in the lot at night that they decided to turn it into a campground.  We don't care, it was an answer to prayer for us.  we didn't even know it was here.  It was getting dark and we were really tired, we had been looking for a campground for over 2 hours, but there was nothing.  We prayed, asking the Lord to provide one for us that had easy access to the freeway,  We saw a Days Inn sign and decided to see if they would let us park in it for the night.  Pulled in the driveway and saw that it had a place with full hookups for each camper. As hot as it was we really wanted to use the air conditioning, so it is a blessing  to have a sire with electric hookups. It was very hot today, a few hours after we crossed into WA,  I stopped to get gas, the digital thermometer in the car read 100 degrees.  It dropped to 98 once I started driving.  At 8:30PM it was still 80 degrees.  Temps will most likely drop a lot once we cross the mountains.  Thanks to God for giving us a place to camp tonight.