Tri-Cities

We left Prosser Monday morning and drove about an hour down the road to the Tri-Cities area along the Yakima River. Richland, Pasco and Kennewick make up the three cites that have grown together here where Lewis and Clark camped on two different occasions. Other than wineries and nuclear reactors, aquatic recreation and wildlife watching, there is not much else to do around here.

We are camped on Lake Sacajawea where the Snake River spreads out above the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam. Thankfully we have a shaded site because the weather has turned hot. It got up to 100° today but will cool off to about 60° tonight and then back up into the 90's again tomorrow. We drove into Kennewick this morning to hike on an island on the Columbia River. After a lunch of gourmet hot dogs we drove along the Heritage River Trail to Canoe Island where we rested with a glass or two of beer at a marina. Its just too hot to do much else.

I mentioned nuclear reactors because this is where the world's first production-scale nuclear reactor was created as part of the Manhattan Project. We had hoped to take a tour but they only give two a month and we'll miss both of them.