Washington!

FINALLY got going again this morning. I left Wyoming in the dest behind me. About 10 miles back we crossed over into Washington. Once we hit Utah the roads have been pretty good. There were some slick spots in Oregon on I-84 but they weren't bad. They also have some huge mountains in Oregon. These that we went over are different than the mountains in the Rockies or on the West coast of Oregon. These had NO trees. Just some scrub brush, but mainly just grass, and it made them seem even larger because they were so bare. Quite breath-taking. Especially this one spot where we dropped almost straight down into a valley. I don't even know what town we came into, but it goes from these huge barren mountains, then you drop 6 miles at a 6% grade with several switch backs, straight down to a farming valley. From the top you can see the different sections of land that are different colors. I imagine it is really something to see in the spring when each section of land is a different shade of green.

We only have about 50 miles to go before we drop this off. We will go ahead and stop for the night and pick up our next load in the morning over in a suburb of Seattle. We could head over tonight, but we have Snoqualmie to go over and it is wet and slushie up there right now. So we would rather tackle that during the day. It is only about 160 miles to the next pick up and they aren't expecting us until tomorrow anyway, so I will head over there in the morning when we get up. One thing I don't understand about this load though is that they have us relaying it in Dallas. But the final destination is Sugarland,TX. So why are we relaying it and not just taking it to destination? Who knows why they do the things they do sometimes.

So that is where we stand right now. We are looking at being back home the 25th-28th of this month. We need to get some stuff done around the house because it is up for sale and we are really hoping it gets sold. This housing market is just horrible right now. I would really like to get a good spring cleaning done and also I want to get the porch re-stained to freshen it up. There are also a lot of trees that need to be trimmed so we will have a busy 4 days at home. We will probably be ready to head back out when all is said and done because that is the only way we will get some rest from all the work we will have to do at home!