"We Never Stop Working for you"

You remember the commercial about Verizon Wireless "We never stop working for you"? Well, it's true. Here's the story...



After being home in Seattle for 2 weekends my hubby got a little restless and on Friday afternoon decided we needed to go on a spontaneous camping trip to the North Cascades. We loaded up the Land Rover with our camping gear and headed out on Saturday morning. We went up the North Cascade Highway which has a beautiful river running along side it. The water is a light milky green color from the glacier silt.









We stopped to take some pictures and noticed groups and groups of salmon swimming upstream in the river heading up to spawn.











We did a 3.5 mile hike to Thunder Knob that had some beautiful views of Lake Diablo (same green color as the river).













Then we were on to our campground at Twin Lakes near Winthrop.

Here is where it gets interesting (and funny). James had change control to do on Saturday night. As a network engineer he has to do all the changes to the network and other things at night. He knew that he had to work on Saturday night at 8 pm when he planned our little adventure. So, at 8 pm on Saturday...at our campground...in the middle of nowhere....he VPNed into the Verizon Network and did a little change control from the car. Luckily the campground had wifi.


We had no cell service at the campground so he had to use his soft phone on his computer. So, when you hear the slogan, "Verizon Wireless, we never stop working for you" just think of James working from his car while camping.




After a very chilly night in the tent (temp was in the mid 30's overnight) we had a relaxing morning then headed home.






We looked around Winthrop...





We bought some great apples near Wenatchee.














Then had a brief stop in Leavenworth for a snack. It happened to be the Autumn Leaf festival.