WILBUR, WA - - Finally, we have escaped West Glacier, MT, Glacier NP and our home for the past three months, Glacier Campground. We waited until the Labor Day traffic had thinned and set our sights on the West Coast. So, here we are in Wilbur, Wa. Population 877 in the middle of huge wheat fields and stories of crop circles.
We found a campground - - Country Lane Campground - - which features "RV Room Service." You order off their menu and they will deliver your cooked meal or breakfast goodie to your door or tent flap. We ran into another unique place a couple of years ago in Idaho where they campground owner invited us to 'go and pick yourselves some tomatoes and some corn from my garden.' And then there was a newspaper outside in the morning.
Wilbur got its name from Samuel Wilbur Condin, an influential individual in the late 1800's, who ran the Wild Goose Bill's Ranch nearby. When the government and railroad wanted to get a town going where none existed, Wilbur got the call.
It's wheat harvest time around here and we saw at least a dozen 'Big' thrasher-style machines carving a path through the wheat fields and sending up clouds of dust.
We'll see where tomorrow takes us.
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