On the road again

  Arcata, California
Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Took off from Arcata early this morning (well, not that early...).


(Just me and the road)

Drove north on 101 up to Grant's Pass, joined 5 North and booked my way up to Portland... What a great city, and I got to enjoy it for about an hour and a half while I crawled through it at rush hour. It actually wasn't that bad because I stopped off at Market of Choice (off Terwilliger by Lewis & Clark College--I knew I should have gone to school there. It's beautiful and isolated enough from Portland proper to make you feel like you're still in a small town, which is important to me since I'm a small-town girl *grin*).

Anyway, got myself a fabulous deli sandwich and continued on up the road to Everett, Washington "All-America City. World-class destination. Welcome to Everett!" (what a lofty slogan, for a town just outside of Seattle--I actually didn't even know that I had left Seattle until I got off the freeway... Oops). I can't believe I'm spending the night here, but all the campgrounds in the surrounding area are full, full, full (must be getting close to some big US holiday or somethin *chuckle*--stupid fourth of July!). By the way, I love Seattle almost as much as I love Portland--if I ever had to live in a big city, I'd choose Portland or Seattle for sure...

All right, I'm hitting the road early manana and crossing the border into Canada (I'm excited because I haven't been to Canada since my family took a road trip up to the San Juan Islands when I was like 9 years old) so it's bedtime for this crazy driving fool. Ciao...