Moving to Alaska: Day Fifteen

Today is the end of "Round One". Thao is flying into Seattle to drive up the last week with me and I need to pick her up the 15th in Seattle. I had added an extra day and a half as a buffer just in case it was needed since meeting her flight on time seems rather important. And it turnes out that the extra time was not needed so so I will have an evening plus full day in West Seattle with my friends Amanda and Ryan.

Since it is the last day of driving I actually slept in a little bit before hitting the road then was running errands like picking up a gas can to have a little extra while driving through Canada and reloading some food and snack supplies. As for the stops themselves, nothing over exciting. I actually drove back to the top of the hill from the day before to see it in daylight and to plant a letterbox. It is still a crazy, circuitous route both up and down the mountain.

But mostly today was just driving across Oregon and Washington since I had done a fair amount of letterboxing in them previously, meaning I did not NEED to find many so the stops would only be to stretch my legs.

By far the funniest/cutest place I stopped was in Zillah, Washington. One of the churches there has a small parade float parked behind the building with a monster on it. It is for the Church of God-Zillah. I was much more amused than I should have been by that.

Tomorrow will be a first for this trip; an entire day where I actually have nothing planned. I did not print letterbox clues since I was not even sure I would be in town. I did not plan tourist stuff for the same reason. So I am just going to go with the flow and not worry about the rest.

Start: Pendleton, Oregon

Stop: Seattle, Washington

~330 Miles Driven

~8.3 Miles Walked
2 Letterboxes Found

1 Letterboxes Not Found

1 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos