Up at 6:30 and ready to go to receiver. It’s across the street so we should be fine.
We’ve been given our next load assignment and we are headed for Royal City, Washington and then Pennsylvania! So glad we aren’t headed back to Texas!
We traveled back across the way we came for a bit to cross over in to Washington. I have to say I am very surprised in the landscape of Washington. I guess between movies and TV I thought it would look more like Oregon with mountains and trees but the part we were in was just like driving through Wyoming or Nebraska. Lots of rocks, flat open fields and lots of cows. There were a few small agricultural areas where they had some apples, peaches, nectarines and hops of all things but trees were scarce. This part of Washington was all farm land. Very few houses. There was one section through the Yakima Indian Reservation that went on for miles and miles and it was just all scrub covered hills with horses every now and then. You would see three or four horses together, then another mile and see a few more. This went on and on and then we opened up in to a beautiful valley with a river and green fields and then back to the brown fields and hills again. We are headed more in to the eastern part toward Spokane in the morning, the top corner of Idaho and in to Montana. Cant wait to see what they look like.
We found a Loves in Ritzville for the night. Ritzy it is not but we can get some sleep. We have a long way to go to Pennsylvania. The route shows we will be going entirely across Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota before heading south in Wisconsin to go around the great lakes and back up in to Pennsylvania. We will definitely need the sleep! Goodnight, y’all.
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- Hops. Beer anyone?
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- Apples
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- Indian village consisted of about a dozen houses huddled up against the rocks next to the highway.
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- Washington side looking back at Oregon.
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- Yeah!!
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- These bloody things are everywhere out here.
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- Wow. What a backdrop for your house.
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- Horses on the Yakima reservation
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- King of the hill
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- Apples
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- Deer standing in the water
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- Whole bunch of apple trees under netting. There was a sign saying something about apple maggots so this may explain the netting.
DG: I too was surprised to see so much farmland in Washington. I think between California, Oregon and Washington we could feed the world.
Didn’t expect to see so many cows either. I tell you this country had it all. I don’t see why we should be buying anything from any other country.
Time for dinner and a nap before moving on. More on the road tomorrow. God bless.
Hills Over The Road 