Onward to Seattle

We left Montana, and drove across northern Idaho to Washington.  Nothing was as we expected, and the topography changed so much it was hard to take it all in.  Idaho was very rugged and very scenic, definitely the most interesting part of this day’s journey.  The mountains are steep and covered with trees, and near the Washington border, there is a great system of lakes.

After crossing into Washington, we travelled through a semi-arid region which is also heavily irrigated farmland.  We crossed over the Cascade Mountain Range, and into the temperate rainforests of the northwest. It’s easy to fall into clichés about how beautiful the country is, or how big it is, and I don’t want to do that.  But it is beautiful and it is big, and wherever we travel, we go for the trip as much as the destination.

We arrived in Seattle just in time for the rush hour!