See you later Umatilla, Cayuse, Walla Walla... Hello Spokane Tununma! Day 7

Day~7 Saturday July 15, 2017
We left Mission Oregon with good feelings. We didn't get to visit the museum, but over all it was a good stay. We did stop by the McNairy Dam fish viewing area and the visiting center. We seen a few eels and by golly we seen shad! I seen too many shad already this year fishing. When I visit the dams, I always pray for them to fall apart and crumble at my feet and let the water start flooding. Maybe one day the river will be restored.

We were then quickly on the road again. Jessica's quote of the trip, "Look, appreciate, and move on, we need to hurry!"  We drove to Pasco to do laundry and upload our blogs.  Every stop we have to blog, we struggle with technical difficulties, and it takes a lot longer than planned. We packed up and were off to Wellpinit, Wa hours later. We finally started getting excited when we reached Rearden, WA. It was also very nostalgic drive to the Spokane Reservation. I lived here once in my early twenties and worked at the High School as well at Spokane BIA  Fire Management. I also have a nephew that is a member of the Spokane Tribe. We set up camp at the Pow Wow grounds. I think we are all happy to have such a nice place to camp. We had a late dinner and stayed up extra late visiting. Brooke went to her tent to find a big spider sitting at the zipper opening. Then another spider showed up on her door. Alerting to say the most.

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