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.
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| I-90 out of Seattle - pretty foggy! |
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| Fog turns to sun over the pass near Ellensburg |
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| All sun through Oregon |
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| My driver and excellent road trip companion |
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| Not much snow in Sun Valley either. This is Dollar Mountain - the kiddies ski hill |
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| Looks like spring, not winter - we took a walk on the golf course |
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| Who's a good puppy? |
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| Meet Reece - a Wire Haired Pointer (4 months) |
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| Grumpy's - a Sun Valley institution |
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| Yes! |
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| Very large beers at Grumpy's! |
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| Nordic Skiing at Galena. Beautiful but not graceful. I fell on my ass several times! |
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| Gorgeous weather! |
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| And anything that ends with beers is good! |
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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. |
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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!
