Friday, May 12-Sunday, May 14                                                                                       Vantage, Washington

After staying in hotels for a few days, we were happy to find a place to camp. It was sort of cool and pretty windy at night, but this campground was a nice one. Wanapum is located on a large reservoir.

The parks are next to each other but camping is at Wanapum.  Ginkgo has a small museum and there’s a cool local gem shop.  The shop is family business with all kinds of local stones, geodes, and of course, petrified wood.

Thousands of 15 million year old trees have been discovered here; we saw examples of redwoods, walnut, birch, maple, oak, and of course, ginkgo.

These are scenes from our hike. The trail wandered up and over rolling hills, we saw sagebrush, dramatic skies, and labeled examples of petrified wood in enclosures along the way.

We visited the nearby Wild Horse Wind Farm.  This is one of the only wind farms in the country with a visitor center.  We took a tour and got to go inside one of the huge turbines.  They were surprisingly quiet; no louder than a dishwasher up close, and almost silent from just a short distance away.

We learned a lot, and I think this is a good look for us!!