Republic, Washington. Miller's RV Park

We started out by driving a secondary road - Highway 3 - between Hwy 1 and Hwy 97.  It was routed along a river in a narrow canyon with many small ranches.  The canyon had high rocky walls and the little river was running fast as the road went downhill.  The road was nice and smooth, but really winding and hard to drive.
    As we connected back up with Hwy 97 we got to a large reservoir,  Lake Okarogon.  The road took us along the lake almost to the border.  It was a busy recreation area with lots of traffic including many fruit stands selling cherries, peaches and raspberries.  We did not know what kinds of fruit we could bring back into the US so we didn't stop, but I was really wishing I could have some of those raspberries.  We missed our crop at the cabin.
    Going through customs to get back into the U.S. took us about 30 minutes.  We certainly look like harmless, retired RVers, but still had a brief search of the RV to be sure that we were not sneaking a person across the border.  I took advantage of the stop to use our handy bathroom after being on the winding road that had no places to pull over.
   After going through customs we turned off the main road again.  We left behind a wine country area that had hundreds of orchards and vineyards.  We climbed over a summit and felt the temperature drop from 109 to 89 (It is really hot when 89 seems cooler!)  We drove past great big trees and lots of flowers.  Unfortunately there were no campgrounds in this area.
    We dropped back down to a lower elevation and found a nicely maintained campground.  However, the parking lanes were blacktop and really held the 101 heat still at 6 PM.  The temperature in the trailer was still 90 - not cooling down to a liveable temp.  Then it rained hard.  The cool breeze was wonderful and we slept with the windows open.  Ahhh!