Labor Day long Weekend

FORKS, WA - - One of the problems with having a 'wandering' vacation is that if you don't plan right you can run out of places to stay.  Labor Day Weekend is a great example.  We're on the Pacific coast of the Olympic Peninsula. This is logging country.  Consequently, towns and campgrounds are on or relatively near the Pacific.  Most parks take reservations as everybody wants to be somewhere on a long 3-4 holiday weekend.  You can see our problem.
     Fortunately, we've found a Forest Service campground (Half price for surly seniors) with some openings.  At $10 per, we blocked in 4 nights. Known as the rainy-est spot in the US ...not volume, but some spitting precip nearly every day...the USFS features big trees, lots of moss and (so far) a relatively quiet crowd.
     We're about 3 miles from Rialto Beach which is a gathering ground for driftwood.  Not the 'wimpy' size we had at the Dungeness Spit...these tree trunks are Big

.  And could tell plenty of stories from their travels.
     Forks derives it's name from the confluence of three major rivers in the area.  It was much easier than having a 'logging' name and then changing it...like Stumptown, MT which found it much easier to attract visitors/tourists by changing to 'Whitefish.'
     There are plenty of  drive-thru coffee stands (No Starbucks...Yah!), good breakfast restaurants; a fairly good supermarket and a nice library.   All the good things.
     And so we have a nice place to wait out most of Labor Day Weekend and get updates on where Hurricane Dorian aims to hit/brush  the Florida Coast.