Heading East!

I told you about my friend the troll yesterday. Here he is:



You can see me on his little finger. Do you notice that I'm the only one he allows to climb on him? That's a real VW Beetle under his hand.

We said goodbye to Quinn and Tessa yesterday. Today we headed east toward Autumn and Brenna (and Siggie!) It will take about a month for us to get home.

Remember when we traveled around the Olympic Peninsula and saw Hurricane Ridge and the Hoh Rain Forest? A lot of moisture comes off the Pacific Ocean, and when the air goes up the Olympic Mountains, it comes down as rain (for the rain forest) and snow (for the glaciers near Hurricane Ridge. More moisture heads for Seattle, which has lots of rain. Then the air gets to the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle, and most of the moisture is wrung out of the air, coming down as snow in the mountains.

We followed Highway 2 through the Cascade Mountains at Stevens Pass, following the Wenatchee River down to Leavenworth, the little Bavarian village we visited 2 weeks ago. Continuing east, the scenery changed entirely! We could have been back in the desert in Nevada or California:








Continuing east we encountered rolling hills and big fields of wheat. With the wind, the fields looked like green waves:



I took a video, but the campground here doesn't have very good WiFi, so I haven't been able to upload it yet.

When I complained about that, look what they did to me:




Fortunately, I had made a friend who rescued me:




Tomorrow's drive will be shorter, and the WiFi should be better. Maybe I can get caught up with videos.

Posted from Nana's iPad