Just a housekeeping note. You will see miles and kilometers, and celsius and fahrenheit. I am posting the information in whatever system I obtain it. For example, the car runs in kilometers but my road maps and the road signs are all in miles. Most of my temps are from the car readout which is currently set to celsius.
We had oatmeal at McDonalds for breakfast. It was quite good and loaded with fruit and nuts and certainly much better for you than an egg mcmuffin. I can't remember if I mentioned this or not but we are not cooking on our way out to Seattle. We eat breakfast at McDonald's, lunch is a veggie sub from Subway and supper is salad and whatever strikes our fancy, usually purchased somewhere along the way at a WalMart superstore. We will cook our own meals on our trip back home.
There was certainly much evidence of random brush fires on our drive today. And, there were salt deposits in many of the small ponds that were dried up. A sign of the times, dry times, are the signs warning drivers not to throw cigarette butts out the window and also asking drivers not to pull on the grass when they pull on the road shoulder. It is so dry that the heat from the exhaust could set the grass on firel
We saw our first "chain up" area today - a pull off so that you can stop and add chains to your tires for winter driving. Don't think this will be a problem for us since the temperature was 28C at the first chain up area!!
At 10:59 this morning we crossed the continental divide at an elevation of 6393 feet.
Today was a long driving day but we are back on track to reach Seattle on time. We gained an hour because we are on Pacific Time. Here is a shot of our camp site in Spokane. The weather so far has held out for us and we have not had to set up the car for sleeping, always a bonus.
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