Day 13 ~ Driving to Spokane ~ Just Overnight Here

Day 13~ Driving to Spokane, Washington

We are still alive despite drinking the Smirnoff.  Mostly just driving today and staying overnight at Spokane.  We don’t really even plan to see anything much in Washington.  Our next big event will be Crater Lake in 2 days. 

We had some hairpin turns getting out of Glacier.  Mike said the alternate route he found is about the same as The Road Going to the Sun. There are no guardrails!  The road drops down the mountain about 8,000 feet.  I snapped some pictures, but since I am in the backseat, to give Harrison more leg room, it is hard to see from my pictures just how dangerous these curves are. 

 

Me:  Michael, be very, very careful here. The kids and I know someone who died right here in this area.

Michael:  You do not!

Me:  Yes, we do!  Did.

Michael:  Who?

Me:  You don’t know her.

Michael:  You are so full of baloney! Who was it?

Me:  Well, it was a character in a book, but still…….It might have been based on a true story!  (By the way, if you have never read the children’s book, Walk two Moons, it is a great read!

 

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Me:  I hate to say this so soon, but I have to pee already.

Mike: No, you can’t.  I am not stopping.  There is no room for erosion on this road.

 

We saw the world’s largest purple spoon.  Really we did.  I should have taken a picture.  Nothing else for me to do in the backseat since WiFi was limited last night, I couldn’t download stuff from the library onto my Nook.

We crossed the Continental Divide.

We drove up a mountain and down a mountain a bazillion times.

We finally arrived at Spokane KOA about 2 hours later than what Google predicted.  Not a new story.  We had a quick dinner of chili and cornbread.  We tried to use the WiFi, but it wasn’t strong enough to even check email.  Natalie and I did our jogging around the campground, and we went to bed early after showers.  Not much to post or see.

We have now moved through 3 time zones.  We started in Eastern, moved to Central, then Mountain, and now we are in Pacific, so we are going to bed very early and leaving very early according to local standards.  We kind of don’t want to change time zones so we are early at Disneyland when we arrive!

The scenery isn’t amazing.  The campground isn’t that clean.  The crapbag here was that we were right next to a train track.  And when I say “next to a train track”, I mean like 25 yards from the train track.  I counted 7 trains that blew their whistle on their way through this night.

It wasn’t that bad.  The weather was nice.  We didn’t cry when we left, though.