Old Retired Guy Blog
Jun 28 - Jul 3, 2007
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On the Road (Page 1/4)
After lunch we headed to Spokane, Washington, where we stopped in a Super 8 motel. Tomorrow we plan to catch Highway 2 for the trip east. Since we've been on I-80, I-90, and I-94 before we thought we'd try something different and follow US Hwy 2 just south of the Canadian border. We're not sure if we'll make it to Wisconsin by the 4th of July, but we have to be in Madison no later than the 5th since that's the day the movers will arrive. By the way, I'm writing this on my new laptop computer while relaxing in bed in the motel room. Pretty cool.
Bad news, good news. Since this is the Saturday before a long 4th-of-July holiday weekend, we decided to stop early at a Super 8 motel and try to make reservations at one of 3 or 4 Super 8 motels down the road in the Kalispell area. Unfortunately, there were no vacancies. We decided that we would just continue driving and see what we could find when we got to town. When we drove through down town Kalispell we noticed an interesting old place called the Kalispell Grand Hotel. My guess: it would either have no vacancy or be too expensive. Kathy went in to check anyway and it turned out there was a vacancy and it was less than $90. We immediately took the room.
For dinner we walked a few blocks down the street to Red's Wine and Blues where we had Yakburgers -- that's right, Yakburgers. They tasted like chicken! Just kidding. They tasted like hamburgers with less fat. On the Road |
[June 28, 2007]
It was a long, tiring day. We recycled old boxes, cleaned, packed and finally said a sad good-bye to 13320 Northrup Street
-- our first house; the place where the kids grew up -- at about 5 PM. It was raining -- a fitting farewell I guess -- and a rush hour traffic jam slowed us to a crawl for an hour and a half. By 8 PM we were only as far as The Dalles
so we stopped for the night.
[June 29, 2007] Today
was a little better; it was still cloudy and a bit rainy, but we were
not as tired and down. We made some business calls from the motel and got
a late start, stopping in Kennewick, Washington, for lunch. After lunch we
saw a interesting looking bridge in the distance so we got off the highway and
drove around until we found it. It's the
[June
30, 2007] The scenery really changed and improved today. We caught Highway
2 outside of Spokane and headed towards Idaho. We were soon out of the
wheat fields, grasslands, and shrubs of Eastern Washington and into the conifer
forests. 
The
panhandle of Idaho is pretty skinny so we weren't in that state very long.
We did, however, gas up in 
At
12:50 PM we entered Montana and lost an hour to the Mountain Time Zone.
That's always the disadvantage of driving east. Later in the afternoon we
stopped for a short break and to enjoy the scenery along
What
an interesting place! It opened in 1912 to serve visitors to Glacier
National Park and the Flathead Valley. The decor is great -- moose and elk
look down at you from the walls of the lobby. But, although the place is
nearly a century old, I still have high-speed internet in the room.
