{"id":267,"date":"2017-10-09T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:07:06","slug":"washington-olympic-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/09\/washington-olympic-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Olympic Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi again!\u00a0 We spent a great week on the Washington Olympic Peninsula.\u00a0 This is home to the Olympic National Park, miles of rocky beaches and national forests.\u00a0 We traveled to the Olympic Peninsula by Ferry, thanks to the advice by Steve H’s brother, Richard, and his wife Joyce.\u00a0 Richard and Joyce live north of Seattle, and came to visit us while we were still on the “mainland” of Washington state.\u00a0 It was so nice to see them, and since they have been RV’ing for many years, they gave us a lot of very helpful information.\u00a0 (Picture below – those of you who know Steve H will notice how much he and Richard look alike!) We had planned to drive through Seattle and around to the Olympic Peninsula, but they told us about the ferry, and recommended it as a better alternative to driving through Seattle.\u00a0 We were worried about managing the RV onto the ferry, but, it was as easy and uncomplicated as promised.\u00a0 So glad we did it that way, saved us hours of driving and much less stress than navigating Seattle with the beast in tow.<\/p>\n

We did have a couple of maintenance issues, right before we left to take the ferry, so we had to delay our trip by a couple of days.\u00a0 I found a mobile RV service that came to the campground we were parked at and they replaced the breaker that controls the outlets and the gfci outlets (again!).\u00a0 You may remember we had trouble with this breaker at the beginning of our trip, and had it replaced while at the factory.\u00a0 We discovered our issue this time while parked at Walmart for a night, which was our staging area to get the ferry the next morning.\u00a0 Since we had no hookups in the Walmart parking lot, we were using battery power and generator\/inverter power.\u00a0 That’s when the outlets quit working again.<\/p>\n

A phone call to Rob (he is so nice to be our “on call technical support”! \ud83d\ude42 revealed that our batteries in the RV – we have 2, 6 volt batteries, the same type used to run golf carts – were pretty low on water.\u00a0 Who knew you had to put water into battery cells????\u00a0 Not us!\u00a0 A quick run into Walmart (they are smart to let RV’ers park in their lots, we spend a lot of $$ every time we are there) to purchase distilled water and Steve filled up the battery cells.\u00a0 But, the gfci outlets would not reset (again).\u00a0 So the mobile guys replaced the breaker the next day.\u00a0 They also tested our batteries and said we should have them replaced.\u00a0 They were losing their power and would not last much longer.\u00a0 So, we found a battery place nearby and had them replaced the next day.\u00a0 Was much easier than we anticipated, they were used to dealing with RVs, had a spot for us to pull up to easily, and half an hour later we were on our way to the ferry!<\/p>\n

The Olympic Peninsula is very beautiful.\u00a0 We did the Hurricane Ridge drive in Olympic National Park, and several hikes in the area, including one on Dungeness Spit – a long spit out to a lighthouse.\u00a0 We love the rocky beaches in this area and also the mossy forests.\u00a0 The weather was great also, which is a big plus!\u00a0 We visited a few small towns in the area:\u00a0 Sequim, Townsend, Port Angeles.\u00a0 We found a local food co-op that had great produce and local meats, and we also found a local restaraunt that specialized in soups, bakery and coffee…we literally went every day!\u00a0 There was an area that had a lot of totem poles and a Native American gallery – we enjoyed visiting it and purchased some gifts there.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy the pictures in the links below!<\/p>\n

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Richard & Joyce Hayden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/1drv.ms\/a\/s!Ap-2lg-EnL0pk1RMo-4ioXyxr6qG<\/a><\/p>\n

Olympic Peninsula:\u00a0 Ferry, beaches and totem poles:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/1drv.ms\/a\/s!Ap-2lg-EnL0plQRrH_fktZ70rq2A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi again!\u00a0 We spent a great week on the Washington Olympic Peninsula.\u00a0 This is home to the Olympic National Park, miles of rocky beaches and national forests.\u00a0 We traveled to the Olympic Peninsula by Ferry, thanks to the advice by Steve H’s brother, Richard, and his wife Joyce.\u00a0 Richard and Joyce live north of Seattle, … Continue reading Washington Olympic Peninsula<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}