Day 4: Oregon to Washington!

I'll put up photos for this post and the previous one (and Day 1, if possible) once we get to the hotel in Kirkland and I have some more time.
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Ahh, man it’s nice to finally be typing this. It’s been a looong day.

Woke up about 6:30, which seems to be the norm for this trip, had coffee, bid farewell to the lovely people I call Uncle Mark and Aunt Jill (now referred to as UM &AJ), and went on our way at 8AM. That, surprisingly, is earlier than we had planned. Hooray!

Once on the road, we stopped a little ways away from UM & AJ, fuelled up there, and departed for an 8 hour drive to Isaquah, Washington.

During the course of the drive, we passed by Mt. Jefferson

A wind farm. These things are HUGE, and there are a ton of them.

Mt. Hood

And Mt. Adam

A ways after that, we stopped for lunch in Biggs, right next to the Columbia River. Ate and drove over the bridge, and into Washington!

  Fantastic view from where we were driving.

Following the state border, quite a while after that actually, we drove by a lake. I don’t know the name, but here’s a few photos.

Later, we drove by a mountain (surprise surprise), and I snapped a photo. This was one of the bigger ones we passed by.

Roughly 20 minutes before arriving at the campgrounds, we passed by a valley. The view was simply breathtaking. This photo doesn’t do nearly enough justice to the spectacle, but it’ll give you a good idea.

Oh! Somewhere in there, we drove by a recent accident where someone had flipped there vehicle. Not a pretty sight. No photos of this one, sorry! (sort of)

Upon arriving at the campgrounds, we set up the trailer, pulled out the sidecar rig, and then went off in search of dinner. We decided that Albertson’s would be a safe bet, since we have one back home. Mom’s GPS, Joy, brought us so where one USED to be, but alas, it was no more. She also tried to take us to a store that turned out to be on a rural twisty road. Also it was a house. Grumble grumble. Okay, so that didn’t work. We decided to fill up the truck, since it was about rush hour time and traffic was horrible. After that, we went in search of a sport supply store in hopes of finding a hose to empty the holding tank of our trailer, no luck. We gave up on that and went in search of a grocery store to (hopefully) find some food, among a few other things. Joy, being the wonderful GPS that she is, led us to where the Safeway was, sort of. It was more like as-far-away-as-possible-but-still-in-the-same-shopping-center-kind-of. Thanks Joy.

Hooray! We found food and the other items we needed and headed back to camp.

Phew! Today has been quite the day. I’m ready for one of the giant cookies we picked up please! :D

That’s all for now. Tomorrow we head up to Seattle to send my brother back home (school starts on Monday for him) and then to Kirkland for Alcan Day 0! (prep day)

Thanks for reading!

Kit

P.S. Let’s see if I can make Sparky a pair of goggles now.