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Washington State<\/h2>\n

We decided to just pass through Washington State to get to Canada for the summer.
\nFirst stop, Casino Ilani, boondocked overnight in their car park, and had a very grown up (no french fries) 13th birthday dinner at the Casino for Laura.
\nOur next stop was Mt St Helens Volcano, it was a cloudy day so we couldn\u2019t see the crater, but we had a beautiful walk around a wet area created by it.
\nWe visited the Visitors Center where the lovely ranger told us all about the morning of May 18th 1980, when a magnitude 5.1 earthquake triggered the collapse of the summit and north flank of Mount St. Helens and formed the largest landslide in recorded history. In less than three minutes, 230 square miles of forest was flattened.<\/p>\n

She told us that Spirit Lake a camping and recreation area at the base of the mountain received the full impact of the lateral blast from the volcano and was swallowed up along with\u00a0 Harry R Truman, 83, apparently had refused to vacate his home near Mount St. Helens despite being warned to leave by officials, he is not to be\u00a0 confused with Harry S. Truman the 33rd president of the USA. \u00a0 This volcano was the deadliest and most economically destructive\u00a0 volcanic event in the history of the United States.
\n57 people were killed, 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railways, 185 miles of highway were destroyed.
\nSince then the mountain has shown more signs of life.<\/p>\n

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Boeing factory in Everett near Seattle.<\/h2>\n

There was traffic congestion on the road out of Seattle so google maps took us on a detour which brought us right past the Boeing factory, we didn\u2019t intend on going but seeing as we were right there and it was lunch time, why not stop. Interesting tour. No mention of the 737 Max and its woes, but we did see some lying idle in the factory.<\/p>\n

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