Andy's Trip: Classic Cars and Deception (Spokane to Whidbey Island)

(I know it's late but here you go)

So I left Spokane after just over 3000 miles of being on the road

and headed west on highway 2. This is a route that I've taken several time before but I've always liked it. You get a good look at nearly all of Washington's many climates (there are a lot of them). It started off as the rolling hills typical right around Spokane but quickly leveled out to some good farmland. Mostly wheat which was nice and ripe and golden. That continued for a while until the rolling hills came back, this time much drier though. There were very few trees and it was mostly ranch land (cattle and a few horses). The ranch land quickly gives way to desert where the only thing growing (it seems) is sage brush.

Also in that area is the Grand Coulee Dam which was until Hoover Dam was built the largest in the world. It's because of that dam and it's fellow dams on the Columbia river that Washington has electricity and irrigated farmland.

At some point during all that looking at scenery I stopped at a place in Reardan for a cup of coffee (I hadn't slept well the night before. Justin's futon kept wanting to turn from a bed into a couch while I was on it. Very uncomfortable). Parked out in front of the place was this car. Nice.

After Grand Coulee Dam, I took highways 174, 17 and 97 until I ran into highway 20 which would become the North Cascade Highway. I've been through the NCH a couple times before and always liked it. I was really looking forward to trying it on a bike. Check out a few of these pictures and you can see what it was like.