The Ampitheater that the concert was held in is part of the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation. The Muckleshoot Indians are a tribe I hadn't heard of so of course
I am going to tell you about them here. When you google Muckleshoot Indian the results mostly are for gaming but some come with a brief history of the tribe
There is also the Tribes Home Page This is another interest page about them.
We left our house June 10th around noon, we weren't in a huge rush as the show didn't start until 8pm but it was Friday and we knew we would hit rush hour traffic in the area and since we hadn't been there before wanted time to check things out and see if there might be an rv park that might be within walking distance, there isn't. We normally take 90 all the way into the Seattle area, but since we had plenty of time we got off on 82 in Yakima. This is a beautiful scenic drive along the Yakima River it's a nice wide two lane road. We drove this to Ellensburg were we returned to 90 and stayed on it through North Bend. There we got off onto 18 and it was 4pm with plenty of time,
Highway 18, no traffic
However we soon came to a dead stop, we had run into construction traffic and inched our way along for about 30 mins.
Highway 18 with construction traffic
Ted had sit up the gps on the laptop and it had mapped out this route for us as shorter and we were following along just fine until the exit, I forget now the name of the exit, which is why one should do this sort of thing earlier then 2 weeks after, but back to our trip, we got to the stop sign at the end of the off ramp and we should have turned left but Ted went right.I saw this really nice house as Ted was making the first of his wrong turns and wanted a picture, so this is the wrong turn
and this is a better picture of the house
We ended up on a beautiful drive. These are some pictures of the scenery we saw:
The gps did get us where we were headed, the only problem, besides not listening to it, it talks, was it was detecting places along the narrow 2 lane road for school buses to pull over and it would tell us that we could turn around in them, but it isn't able to take into its plotting how big we are, so we would drive along and it would tell us we were off track that we could turn around so far ahead in distance and in minutes, which got really old, and since we couldn't find any place to turn around we just kept driving, eventually the gps guy noted a major road ahead of us and Ted followed his directions which brought us out almost on top of the ampitheater and by this old weed covered store.
At this point should have turned left, turned right. Traffic was heavy and not knowing where we were and being so big Ted kept driving hoping to find a large parking lot to turn around in. We ended up going about 10 miles out of our way. When we got turned around we got caught in traffic that was going to the concert. We got to the Ampitheater 5 minutes before the parking lot opened, which worked out well since we saw there wasn't an RV park in the area.
Where we parked.
After the show we spent the nite in the parking lot of the Ampitheater, we were the only ones there. but it was quiet unlike when we spent the nite at the Gorge and it was party time after that show. So now I will share my pictures of the drive. The area was so beautiful, and green. Seems like we were back in the eastern states rather then 40 miles out of Seattle, beautiful farms lots of horses, so I was actually pleased that Ted didn't listen to the little voice.
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