Thursday, August 30 – Road Trip – we met some friends today in Leavenworth, WA today. It was a scenic drive and for the first time since we got to Washington we saw apple orchards and a lot of them. Blending right in are the grape vines, an occasional corn field and one potato field. The last time I saw a potato harvester was on Prince Edward Island.

 

Leavenworth was an old railroad town that reinvented itself as a replica of an Alpine Village and is thriving on tourism these days. The German beer and food is great and there are more shops than I could do in a week. We had a good visit and we asked them a lot of questions about Washington and Oregon because they have family in both and travel most summers in the northwest.

 

 

On the way home we stopped in a small town called Cashmere to see a famous Candy Company – Aplets and Cotlets. I never heard of it but they ship candy all over the world. It was an interesting tour and now I know of one thing that apricots are good for.

 

I could not help but think of the old "I Love Lucy" episode where she was working on a candy line stuffing candy everywhere…

 

 

  

  

 

We did stop at a fruit stand on the way home – the cherries are done but the peaches are good and the apples are just starting to come in. We saw a lot of harvesting on the way home and met semi after semi loaded with big crates of apples.