Winthrop (WA) to Cusick (WA) - 235 miles

Sept. 9, 2011 - We kayaked on Pearrygin Lake after breakfast - a wonderful way to start the day.  Drove the Subaru into Winthrop to buy a few groceries before getting on the road with the RV at 11:50am.  Then it was a steady day of driving through 90+ degree temperatures.  By late afternoon, we wanted to find an RV park for the night.  Our iPad has been so helpful to locate RV sites, but it failed us today as we looked for a site along the Pend Oreille River in Washington.  The first two places listed were actually RV resort communities that you buy into and they were both abandoned.  We saw a billboard sign for another RV park, but that one was also a resort that you buy into.  A woman at that resort community told us about a DNR site nearby on the Skookum Creek.  So, we drove the RV down a gravel road for a short way and “dry camped” for the night - no electric or water hookups.  We ate a light dinner - a tuna wrap and chips with Roger’s chocolates from Victoria for dessert.  Tom was surprised to get truffles on this trip!  Even though we have battery power to use in the RV when we can’t hook up to an outside source, we called it an early night and crashed at 8:30 pm.  Waking up in the night, I could look through the back window above our heads to see a forest of tall trees reaching up into the stars...