Day 8 Eastern Washington

The plan has worked quite well - no really long days of driving, getting to our planned destinations early enough to get a chance for a walk. The weather has been great, we're still speaking to each other... what more could we want.

It's a six-hour drive to Hope, Idaho from Renton, Washington. This will be our last night on the road until we get to our timeshare. The scenery along I-90 is spectacular through the mountains. All of a sudden we realized that the light rain had turned to snow and the white sides of the road were high snow banks - way over the car. We stopped at the summit and it was like driving into a walled snow cave. The rest stop was there, carved out of the at least 12-foot high snow bank.

We decided to spend the night in historic Ellensburg - cute buildings and no signals in town. Don especially enjoyed the Clymer art museum http://www.clymermuseum.com/visitor_info.html.
We also enjoyed the many posters for their Annual Ellensburg Rodeo, e.g., http://www.ellensburgrodeo.com/merchandise/Poster%202001.JPG