All three meals!

seen in eastern WA

So our trip East finally begins.  Sometime during the day we crossed a highway that would lead us north towards Penticton, so that was a bit discouraging, but now we're in Idaho and I can see progress. We are coming home, after all, if for no other reason than everything in the states between Seattle and Chicago (except our little stop in CO) scares me.  So I've become one of those tricoastal urban/suburbanites who is terrified of the people watching fox news in the motel, wearing "freedom isn't free" t-shirts, and sporting bumper stickers such as: "nobama".  Sigh.


We followed this US mail truck for a minute.  I have seen thousands of fed ex trucks on my east-west trip. This was the first (of two) US mail trucks that I saw.

beautiful Northwestern mountain forests

 At about 5:00 I told Ashby that we'd drive for a few more hours, then pull into Boise and find a motel and a restaurant for dinner.  Her reply?  "Good. all three meals."  I didn't know what she was talking about, but apparently, she found cause for celebration in the fact that we would eat three meals in one day, rather than snacking on skittles and gatorade all day long, which is how we've managed to cover so many miles in so little time.  Yes, there's a bad mother award out there for this behavior....

greasy spoon

yes...the car with the bumper stickers is mine...

When we left the classic eatery, Ashby said: "No wonder there's no road food anymore, i didn't like that food."  And so it goes.  We can hope and nostalgiaze, but everything is horrible "out there."  Give me the Depot. 

a little more Oregon..far Northeastern corner

videos: name that tune.....?


And finally to Boise for dinner and motel.  Ashby wanted Thai, which I thought was unlikely, but we found a perfect restaurant: