West to East Road trip I

Driving from Bellingham to Seattle was a little disconcerting. It's the first time I've been on a major highway in 5 months. I forgot how LOUD it is to drive on the freeway. Traffic was pretty bad too. At 1 pm! And Sea-Tac (the airport) was interesting. I've never had to park at an airport that big before. The parking decks were spiraled, like snail shells. Like the Guggenheim. Anyway, I survived it all and met up with mom in the baggage claim.

 We got back on the crazy Seattle freeway and started heading east on I-90. Mom heard about a waterfall just outside of Seattle so we kept our eyes peeled for signs. We stopped at the Snoqualmie falls to stretch our legs, snap a few pictures, and have a picnic lunch:

 The we continued. The scenery was just what you would expect in Washington: luscious evergreens and mountains. But once you get passed the mountains and forest, the landscape changes to rolling grassland. We were very excited to see wind turbines! They were huge! And very graceful.
We got to watch the sunset over the plains:

 And we stopped at the Wild Horses Monument:

 The sun going down over central Washington:

 The bridge at Vantage:

We stopped to get dinner at a dinky little place called Bob's Cafe in the middle of nowhere. A sign said that it was the last service stop for 40 miles, so we didn't really have a choice. We kept driving in the dark, which was very eerie because there are no lights.
And now we're living it up in Ritzville for the night.