Once again,
we were nearly an hour late getting on the road this morning. This is a
distressing trend. There’s a snowball effect from getting in late the night
before. We get in late, so we are tired and don’t do some of the things that
need to be done, like downloading photos from the camera and the phones. So
that gets pushed off till the morning. Then morning comes and everyone is still
tired, so we lag a little in getting ready….and then we’re running late ant the
schedule is skewed. And then travel time between destinations is longer than
google maps told us, so we’re even later, and then we get in late and we’re
tired, and the cycle just repeats.
All whining
aside, we finally left the state of Montana and drove into Idaho.
Our first
stop of the day was lunch, which was a competition bbq team with a roadside
food truck and picnic tables. The owner came out and chatted with us (after the
Jedi had complemented the staff and told them we were KCBS judges.)
After that,
we drove over to a local park in Couer D’Alene…
with trail
access to Tubb’s Hill.
This was a
stop that Boybot was really looking forward to. One of his requests for the
trip was a place where we didn’t have to stay on the trail and he could just go
climb on some rocks.
Also, it
seems that any location he can walk away from with a pocket full of rocks is a
winner in his book.
Once we had
climbed, taking the not-even-a-trail less traveled, to the top of the hill,
we
took some pictures....
headed down and hit the road again.
Today was a
long drive day, eight and a half hours, plus the stops.
Our dinner
stop was scheduled in Roslyn WA, where the TV show Northern Exposure was
filmed. We did stop there for some fun photos.
But the
Brick, where we had thought to eat, was a 21+ establishment. (A piece of info
that would have been more helpful if they had put it on their website.)
That was ok,
because we were really debating eating dinner here, or waiting till we had
crossed the Cascades. It was just before dark, and we wanted to get as much
mountain time driving done before dark as possible.
It turned
out, we drove into a major downpour, so dark descended immediately. For two
hours or more, the Jedi drove in winding mountainous roads in the dark, in
pouring rain, through more road construction.
We stopped
at a little truck stop in NorthBend(?) for dinner. Boybot had requested
breakfast for dinner, and that’s what this 24/7 dinner could deliver. The Jedi
said, that was the most filling meal for eight dollars he had ever eaten. On
the way out, I noticed a sign that said that the local wild elk herd numbered
between three and six hundred.
Really late
getting into Seattle, but everything we owned was dirty, so the kids and I
sorted all the laundry, and I pushed one load through the machines. The laundry
room closed at midnight, and I just got my load transferred into the drier
before that deadline. I also learned that even though I didn’t have enough
socks and underwear to make a whole load, or enough jeans to make another whole
load, that it wasn’t really a good idea to combine those two loads, especially
when two of the Jedi’s jeans shorts had never been laundered before.
Yeah.
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