Saturday, August 24, 2019

We're home! What a wonderful trip! Flew to Washington on Sunday. Monday, the guy selling us the brewery equipment was unavailable, so we had to amuse ourselves until Tuesday. We went to the Mount Rainier National Park - huge hills bristling with pine trees. Forest everywhere. Warm sun and light, cool breezes, like it's supposed to be. Then we went to downtown Seattle and the Space Needle.  Beautiful city. Went to the hotel and fell into bed. Up at the crack of dawn, rented the truck and got the equipment loaded. Lots of very heavy stuff. A salute to the guys who sold us the stuff, who could have said "Here it is, see ya later, but instead spent about 4 hours helping us get it all on the truck.

And then off! Four days of driving that big thing, through mountain passes, up and down the switch-backs on mountain sides, and through seemingly endless desert. (especially when Nature called and GPS told us it was 60 miles to the next restroom).

We stopped on the way at the Arches National Park and I got lots of great pics, and then lost them as I was trying to make room on my phone for more. Maybe I'll swipe some from Raymond - I took some on his phone too.

Here are some of my favorite pics of the trip:

Mount Rainier. So many Bob Ross scenes in that place! 

I'm in love with Washington.















As we were rolling through this area, Cinnamon girl was playing in my head. "A dreamer of pictures, I run in the night. You'll see us together, chasing the moonlight, my Cinnamon Girl."

I didn't take this pic,  but the one I took was too fuzzy so I downloaded this. Shiprock. Beautiful.




Eden, Texas.


2 comments:

  1. You passed such beautiful places. Thanks for sharing the pics! I liked all the places you passed ... the green and the desert!

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  2. Thanks! In a few minutes I'll be posting the pics of the Arches National Park that Raymond took.

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