Curlew Lake State Park, Washington

2019-09-07

For the last 3 days we have been camping at a state park just outside of Republic Washington, and visiting with Kim’s cousin. Both are trying to do research on their families past.

We spent the day going to British Columbia in Canada so that Laurie and Kim could check out the lists the archives, and to just soak in the feeling of what it must have been like to live in this area almost a century ago.

Kim and Laurie looking through old newspapers at the towns library

Just one of many old homesteads that dot the landscape

You know that I couldn’t help put put in an arty photo!

Today we are going to drive to a couple of old abandoned mining towns that sit almost on the Canadian border. The girls hope to get a feeling of what it most have been like for their relatives to live in a mining town, and I just hope to replenish my supply of “arty” photos.

2019-09-02

Pipe Creek, TX

Our bags are packed and we are ready to go for 3 weeks of roaming and photographing and looking for long lost relatives hopefully in all the right places.

As you can see we are NOT traveling light this time. Instead we have everything needed to camp on the road. I’ll let you know as we go along what we forgot and what we didn’t use.