We decided late Friday evening (around 11pm) that we would leave early Saturday morning and drive to Eastern Washington, picking off some of the tiny towns on the Cities and Towns challenge and adding mileage to our little race car. The plan was to spend the night in Yakima, then head home a different way, picking up a few more towns and miles.
The first town we went to was Roslyn, WA. For the Northern Exposure fans out there, it's the town where most of the filming was done. We found our geocache, then ate lunch at The Brick. It has been redecorated since Northern Exposure days, so it didn't look much like The Brick from the show. I did have the best burger there I've had in ages. The Brick is the oldest tavern in Washington state.
From there, we headed on to Leavenworth where my dog fell in the Wenatchee river. Don't worry, just the side part of it. He did get soaking wet though and the car smelled like wet dog for the next few miles. We picked up a few more caches at a few more towns and finally made it to Yakima around 5:30pm.
Have I mentioned that Eastern Washington is a desert? It's hot over there, so we were a little limited on what we could do as far as leaving the dog in the car. We ended up getting takeout Chinese for dinner and eating it in the hotel room.
Sunday we headed out in the other direction, picked up several more caches, including one in a cemetery. We saw a guy with a life size metal elk in the back of his pickup truck. It made me comment that everyone should have a metal elk for their pickup truck. We saw some real elk, a mountain goat and a tiny little lizard on the trip. Oh, and some little teeny fish that Mickey scared when he fell in the water.
After posting the miles we logged for our little racer, we are now in the lead by about a 100 miles. Go Terrible Ts!
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