Do you remember where you were 35 years ago. Cyndy and I were down at Ocean City, WA digging razor clams. We need to run to the store and that is when we found out that Mount St. Helen had blew its top. Everyone were saying that Washington was going to be covered in ASH from the mountain. So we went back to camp told everyone what had happened and headed for home, hoping we would make it back to Puyallup. We were the lucky ones, no ash any where in the northwest part of the state. The people that were in eastern Washington got most if not all of the blunt from the mountain's eruption. Today it still has a eerie felling when we go up to Windy Ridge to look into the mountain, the trees that were blow down still lay as it had just happened. The natural reseeding of the forest has began and it is starting to grow back. Don 't miss this park when you are in the area.
Today we moved from Long Beach to Seaside, just about 40 miles, but it was an easy move. We got a great spot here at the Thousand Trails Park. We went out for a light dinner of clam chowder at Mo's, we ordered the family bowl so we have another meal for tomorrow or the next day.
Tomorrow we are heading to Fred Meyers and Costco to start buying food for the Caravan. It is a little bit cheaper here in Oregon (no taxes), so we will pick up some of the things that will last for a while. We have a nice size freezer, so we can keep it a little bit longer. We are going to pick up the chicken for the dinner in "Chicken Alaska", and then cook it and freeze it. Canada has a rule we can not bring any raw poultry into Canada unless it is cooked. Other than that we are getting ready for this weekends playing in the sand.
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