ONALASKA WASHINGTON

I imagine that not many people have heard of this town. I have only seen it on a map, and possibly heard the name a time or two — why, I don’t know.

You can read a bit about it ...

HERE

We are surrounded by mountains and hills here and a bike ride was looking doubtful. We did get the one ride to the state park the other day but I did not expect we would get another ride. Susan however, used her trusty old GPS and routed us on a nice country jaunt. I say ‘nice’, but boy of boy did we do some climbs! Fortunately we have our pedal assist bikes and could make it up those long and steep hills. I doubt that I could do it otherwise.

Starting from our campground we get a view of some mountains and a lake. We however, are not going in that direction. 

We are in a very rural area with many farms and farm animals to entertain us as we struggle up some hills or zoom down the other side. That seemed to be the theme of the day — struggle to gain ground and fly down the other side to lose what we had gained. Folly I say.

This next one is a rather mundane thing to take a photo of, but I was intrigued by the big tong-like marchine moving these bales of hay.

Onalaska does not have much of a town. There are a few burger bars, a church and a fire station.

We rode past this old building that we felt looks like it could have been a rooming house back in the day.

Our destination was the high school where we would pull up a piece of lawn and have our lunch.

They are the “Loggers”...

The ONY way...

We ate our lunch at this commemorative rock...

Across the road from the high school is the School District office, and the elementary school. There were hearts in the windows with supportive words for the students.

Difficult to get photos of the hearts with the reflection of the sky behind me. But the sentiment is shown.

This is it for our week and we will head home tomorrow. We have another plan for next week so I will be back then with more fun ;’-).

Stay safe and well everyone.