Today was a driving day. Driving rain and driving in the car. We came south, then east to leave the Olympic Peninsula. It rained most of the day as we passed through the State Capital City of Olympia, and then on through Tacoma and Federal Way. Just as we turned east into Auburn, the rain began to let up.
We pulled into the town of Snoqualmie at about 2:00pm under clearing skies. This was good, because we wanted to see the famous waterfall without having to get soaked in the process. The viewing area for Snoqualmie Falls is a highly developed area adjacent to a spa and resort that is owned by the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe. It also has 5G cell reception, which allowed us to spend an hour in the parking lot updating/uploading our backlogged blog posts.
In keeping with our ongoing references to popular movies and television shows, we’ll mention that the falls was featured in the 1990’s TV series, Twin Peaks.
We snapped some photos from the upper viewing area, then drove a couple miles down the road to the Fall City Roadhouse. The roadhouse is located at the intersection of state highways 202 and 203 next to the Snoqualmie River. It’s an old restaurant/bar on the first floor, with six lodging rooms on the second floor. This is where we are staying for the night. Incidentally (for you hardcore fans), the roadhouse was also featured in certain exterior shots used in the Twin Peaks TV show. We’ll also say there were no Laura Palmer sightings during our visit.
When we pulled up to the roadhouse, it looked abandoned. The sign on the door said it opened at 4:00pm. Since it was not yet 4:00, we decided to go back up the road and visit the lower viewing area of Snoqualmie Falls. After some more pictures at the historic hydro-electric power plant, we went back and checked into our room.
We are staying in Room 1. It has its own bathroom. Just across the hall from us is the community bathroom, which is for those tenants not lucky enough to have their own (it seems, however, that we are the only ones staying here tonight).
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Beautiful posts!
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