Saturday 21st October 2023
We packed up pretty quickly, maybe we are getting the hang of it? And set off for a slow 270 miles to get us to the Pacific!
We had been driving a lot of our previous trips west on the I90 which for the most part was a quiet Interstate but this leg was very busy. A neighbor at our last stop told us about the apple farms along the way near Leavenworth so I hoped to be able to find one we could stop at while towing and we did. A nice roadside stand with rv friendly pull in area. I would have loved to have bought lots as the stand had some unusual varieties and it would have been great to have stewed and froze them for pies and crumbles but freezer space is too much of a premium.
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| Orchard |
As we approached Seattle area and crossed the Cascade mountain region the weather turned from a pleasant Fall day to low clouds, no sun and rapidly dropping temperatures. You hear about the Seattle region rainy weather and it's all true as we would find out in the coming weeks.
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| Smoke? No, low clouds. |
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| Truckstop |
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| Cloud! |
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| Are we there yet? |
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| Tacoma Narrows Bridge |
We had been driving through narrow busy roads nestled in thick pine forests so we did not have any advance visual that we were about to cross the famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge. I was on my cell looking up Tacoma as I thought there was a famous song with this in the title when John says "oh wow look we are crossing the bridge where all the cars fall off!"
This was the bridge in 1940 that when the wind hit it at a certain resonance it made it sway and bend violently. I'll insert a you tube link here, go watch, I'll wait for you.......
Scary!
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| The photo looks black and white, by this time of our journey the sky was totally grey. |
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| Puget Sound |
We began our morning in the desert coulees of north east Washington and ended up in the very damp pine tree forests of the Pacific North West.
Next post I will tell you where stop number 32 was.
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