Kit and Carol on the Road

Monday morning after leaving Anacortes, we stopped for breakfast with Gwen and Jim (who had just driven out from Maryland in 4 days). We can’t even imagine 1000 miles a day. 250 miles is a horrible long day for us and we have just done two back to back. Of course –the measure of a day is directly proportionate to rise in temperature and altitude. The first day we went from a cool salubrious morning on Fidalgo Bay, through some valley fog, and up over the mountain into double digits. At 10pm it was still 83 degrees.
Also there was a lot of up and downs —poor Wayne worked hard. I took in the green and wild river over Stevens Pass in preparation for the browns and lazy reservoir of the coulee country. We enjoyed driving through the “amber fields of grain”. Today we saw them harvesting the wheat.

We spent Monday night at Grand Coulee –pushed to get there as we wanted to see the laser light show. It was truly awesome! (if you ignored the propaganda aspect of the show). No reason to hang around there today. I wanted to side trip to Fort Spokane which sounded interesting –but the visitor center was closed. We barely got reservations at the RV park where we are tonight on Lake Pend Orielle in Idaho. And when we got here the restaurant was closed. (this was to be the bonus of a longer drive). We did get salad and beer and a great view of the lake. Have to move on tomorrow. No room in this inn. August is NOT a great time to travel.