Continuing on our journey, Toni and I next began our venture into the the land of glittery vampires, Native American werewolves, and well, a lot of touristy traps...
\Dazzled by Twilight store in Port Angeles, WA
Stop 4: Port Angeles
We left Port Townsend and followed our way through to Sequim passed many lavender farms, some of which we will talk about later. It had been crazy rain most the way, but as we approached Port Angeles the sun decided to momentarily come out and an interesting phenomena happened, the water began to evaporate off the streets at a very rapid pace creating a more steam than fog like mist rising off the streets. This very much hampered my visibility in driving, so that was kinda lame, but it looked extremely awesome. We failed to get a picture. Our first stop in Port Angeles is on the road to The Heart of the Mountain/ Hurricane ridge , but it is just the road there, we never went to Hurricane Ridge so still to this day I have yet to visit that wondrous place. Instead, we just stopped at the rangers station on the outskirts of town. It was a supper cool station, with like Jaw bones and rock type stuff to look at, free maps, and the MOST helpful ranger I have ever met in my life!!! they were awesome. the lady ranger at the service counter helped me and a few other travelers determine the best National Forest camp site to shoot for getting a camp spot at, It was not Sol Duc, it was Mora, which I had had as my intended destination since Sister Gibbons recommended it and said how beautiful it was. She was right. the ranger checked, no reports but due to rain, and lavender festival, and the fact that there are many camp sites there, she said it was a pretty safe bet. So we left the ranger station, and returned to Port Angeles for quick site seeing. The ranger even told us where we could find the twilight store.
I learned on this trip, that Toni is odd, but I love her any way. Here is why she is odd, She hates Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, and anything of the kind, but she really likes Twilight. That is the complete opposite of the vast majority of my friends, but I love Toni for her unique opinion. so, Still in a foggy mist, we headed back towards town, to Dazzled by Twilight. Well, I just typed the address from the ranger into the GPS and followed the sound, but when we got there, and saw the store, I couldn't really see the street signs indicating it was a one way street, so I decided to turn left and pull into parking right by the store, but as i turned i noticed there were a lot of cars heading towards me, and no lane for me to be in, quickly i pulled to the parking spot, flipped an u turn, and course corrected. Toni and I were a bit shaken, me more than Toni, as usually I am a fairly good driver and things like that don't happen, but we just found our parking spot and because I was shaken it was quite a ways away, so we started walking and saw this cool scene 
The steamy fog that caused my poor visibility, but made for beautiful scenery
After that, we went to the crazy twilight store, full of sparkles and it was fun enough, and then we got in the car and started driving to La Push. We drove past one of my favorite spots on the planet, and just took pictures but didn't stop. Lake Crescent, between Port Angeles and Sol Duc on the 101. It is always the most beautiful blue-green water, and so placid. Today it was more dark blue, but parts of it were the pretty green. It was over cast.
If I could I would live out here. I love this place!!!
End part 2.. trip to continue.
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