Until a couple of days ago, the town of Forks, Washington represented nothing to us except that it was a spot on the map with a funny name that happened to be close to Olympic National Park. HA!
For the uninitiated (as we were), Forks and nearby La Push are the setting for Stephenie Meyers’ popular “Twilight” series of vampire-themed books – and therefore a mecca for fans of all ages and headquarters of all manner of souvenier shops and “Twilight” tours.
We didn’t have much of a choice of RV parks after touring Olympic NP’s Hoh Rain Forest, but managed to locate one right on the Pacific Coast at Rialto Beach in La Push (the park’s Third Ecosystem). We were happy when told over the phone that we’d have a site right on the ocean, so we headed out of Forks and towards the coast. As we made our way down route 110, we tried to ignore all of the vampire, werewolf, and “Twilight-zone” related references on signboards.The waterfront turned out to be absolutely stunning, although somewhat fogged in.
The lack of WiFi or TV service was a minor nuisance, but what made us more uneasy was the fact that we were so far out (perhaps close to the western-most spot in the continental U.S.) that we had no cell or transistor radio service either – not to mention the posted tsunami warnings “in the event of an earthquake”. A perfect spot for vampires and werewolves indeed; maybe it’s time to start our way back east.
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