Roadtrip Day 4: Washington State

We made it to our final destination! I cannot believe we drove 2500 miles in 3-1/2 days, especially with a dog and cat along for the ride.

Mom and I are now staying with my brother Mike in Redmond, just outside of Seattle.

Too tired to type now. Will recap in the morning.

Okay, I am now a bit more refreshed than I was when I started this post yesterday.

We had breakfast in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, with Doc’s mom this morning. We ate at a lovely ritzy resort restaurant on the lake. Not that the restaurant was that ritzy, but the resort sure was. It was really great to see her, and now that she’s moving to Derby, Kansas, we’ll be able to visit more often.

Our drive was mainly uneventful. Eastern Washington is surprisingly plain and flat.

The Columbia Valley Gorge is somewhere in the middle, and it is quite beautiful.

Western Washington, however, is much more interesting.

We got to Mike’s house in the early evening and sat out on his back porch for a little while until he got home from work. Then he took me for a ride on his new motorcycle. I cannot believe I got on the back of a bike! The last time I was on one, I was an infant in a cardboard box on the back of my dad’s motorcycle in the early 1970s.

My brother’s girlfriend of four years recently left him and it’s like all the life has gone out of him. He won’t eat, he barely responds when you talk to him, and doesn’t smile. I know he’ll pull through it eventually but he’s in a bad place right now, and it makes me really sad that there’s nothing I can do.

Tomorrow Mom and I will go to Sequim to see her new house in progress.