On our way to the rainforest side of Olympic National Park, we had to stop in Forks. You know, the town that Twilight is based on. Although the movies were not actually filmed in the real Forks, Wash., Stephenie Meyer (the author) had chosen the town because of its ridiculous amount of rain, and small town status. When she was researching Forks, she found that the La Push Reservation was very close, too, which fit the story of Jacob (the guy pictured above).
"My Forks had become such a real place in my head that I was sure the reality would have some kind of jarring difference." Meyer wrote about the first time she visited Forks. "It wouldn't look like the pictures, maybe, or there would be some huge flaw that would make my story impossible in that setting. But as we flew in, low over the densely green hills with the incredible Cascades Mountains touching the clouds to the south, I stopped worrying."
When we first drove into the town, it reminded me a lot of my hometown (Shelby, Mich.). It was super small, kind of run down, and basically just a road of town. We went to the chamber of commerce and they had a little map of landmarks for tourists to visit. So, we took a few pictures with the cardboard cutouts and were on our way through the self-guided tour.
