Kelso, Washington & Mt. Saint Helens

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August 21st thru the 29th we stayed in a campground that one of the Thousand trails membership locations in Kelso, Washington near Longview/ During this time Shane and I were visiting family in both Rainier and Warren. Shane's father was close to passing while we were at the Beach and he wanted to get closer to help Pattie during this time, which was timely since he did pass a few days after we arrived.

We didn't like the campground much since we were up higher on what felt like a ledge and the dog area was small and in a spot down below. I stayed at TJ and Lisa with the kids and got work done too. Shane went a trip to Fort Stevens to meet up with Brandon and Logan for one of the days. and while together he got a call from Pattie saying he had passed away. 

We visited Mt St Helens while in the area on the 25th, not that impressive and since it was a national park we couldn't take our dogs to the view point. We were fortunate that a lady saw us leave our truck with the dogs in side ad tole us that even though we had air on and the truck secured that if noticed the police could break into it for the dogs. She shared this because it happened to her, this is when we found out that national parks don't allow animals except for in parking lots. That's going to change things for us.

Toutle is located 10 miles (16 km) east of Castle Rock along Washington State Route 504, which is also known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway.[3]Toutle is near Mount St. Helens and the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which lies at the end of the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway.



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