Road Trip

After Christmas we made a little road trip over to Sun Valley to visit friends. Normally at the end of December this would be a bad idea because the roads can be totally treacherous getting over a couple of mountain passes between Washington and Idaho. But this year, and sorry NE United States while you are buried in snow, we have no snow. Nothing! It's dry as a bone. So we packed up the car and took off. 

Here was our route:

Total time 9.5hrs door to door in pure sunshine and pure fog.

I-90 out of Seattle - pretty foggy!

Fog turns to sun over the pass near Ellensburg

All sun through Oregon

My driver and excellent road trip companion

Not much snow in Sun Valley either. This is Dollar Mountain - the kiddies ski hill

Looks like spring, not winter - we took a walk on the golf course

Who's a good puppy?

Meet Reece - a Wire Haired Pointer (4 months)

Grumpy's - a Sun Valley institution

Yes!

Very large beers at Grumpy's!

Nordic Skiing at Galena. Beautiful but not graceful. I fell on my ass several times!

Gorgeous weather!

And anything that ends with beers is good!

And the long drive home. This is near Hermiston, OR at the border of WA.
The fog was just a wall ahead of us and here it was just starting to roll over the fields.

And we drove straight into it, all the way to Yakima, then mostly dark back to Seattle.
Great trip and great catch up with friends.

Trip note: We didn't stop for food on the way over to SV. But on the way back, we got burrito's to go in Baker City, Oregon at Delicioso Mexican Restaurant . Awesome little discovery. I notice the reviews don't seem to be very nice on the google site, but the gals who helped us around 11am last Sunday were awesome, and while it's not really a "to-go" place, they were great about getting our burrito's ready for the road. So, in our opinion - great burrito's - go there!