On To Ellensburg

We got a pretty good start this morning and for a change, everything seemed to go just fine. No low tires, no dead batteries, no difficulty setting Toad II up to tow. The only resistant part was our towbar. Guess I need to go online and find out what's recommended to lubricate it...

We headed south on I-5, turned off onto 405 towards Bellevue, then onto I-90 and headed east. It was fun to see the Cascade Mountains begin to show up in the distance --

As we got closer, the blue  began to turn into huge rocks and trees --

There isn't anything a whole lot prettier than driving over Snoqualmie Pass on a beautiful sunny day --

 

 

Until we got over the Pass and started down the east side and ran into road construction! All of the electronic bulletin boards for several miles had been warning of "congestion on the east side of the pass." I think they have been blasting on the side of this mountain for years now as they work at widening the road.

But, if you have to alternately sit and crawl for an hour and a half, it helps to be doing it with this gorgeous scenery alongside!

Finally, we pulled out of the long construction zone and began to see the more open scenes of eastern Washington --

The closer we got to the Cle Elum/Ellensburg windy area, the more windmills we began to see --

 

I'm sure glad we decided to break our journey to Spokane at Ellensburg. The l-o-n-g delay at the Pass made for a later arrival then we had planned. I had made reservations at the Ellensburg KOA for two nights. We have a nice shaded pull-through site -- and good satellite TV reception as well.