9/2/11 Day 28- On the road from Idaho to Washington. As you can tell from the scenery we are close to Lewiston and the great Palouse. Wheat fields, cattle and grain elevators dominated the scenery. A call to Ross confirmed he was home and welcomed us to his place on the way through. After a stop in Moscow for a new sleeping bag (return Ross's) and mattress for Mark (yes, his went flat again for the second night) we brought the Harley into Pullman, WA. It's with mixed emotion that we are back in our home state. We feel so fortunate to be able to have made this journey and experience more of our home country.
Lunch at Vahalla where Ross works. He's scheduled for a long weekend of work for the first home football game at WSU. He hosted us and his Uncle Chris and cousin Chloe at his place for the night! What fun to meet up with family on our trek back over the last mountain range. Mark and I visited with some friends in town while Ross was working. Hey, we finally made it to under the 4,000 ft. elevation!
9/3/11 Day 29 On to Wenatchee on back roads through Steptoe, St. John and Sprague before hooking on to highway 17 at Moses Lake then 28 from Quincy into Wenatchee. The combines were hard at work in the wheat fields and it had a certain beauty seeing the fields in different hues of gold depending on where they were in the harvest. Those machines are amazing how they navigate the sloping acreage. We spent the night in Wenatchee at Dad and Linda's "other" home catching up on some sleep and gearing up for the final jaunt. It was a much appreciated stay to break up the trip across the state.
9/4/11 Day 30 After a whole month on the road we were close to home! From Wenatchee we drove through Plain to Steven's Pass. This was a new road for both of us! We even ran into some neighbors at the little Plain Market! What a small world it is we have found out. Here we are approaching Index and Gold Bar on highway 2. Washington state ranks right up there in awesome and diverse scenery. We feel so lucky to live here after all our travels. After an early dinner stop in Snohomish we tried to keep with our goal of staying off the interstates and traveled the last hour on highway 9 to home.
"Until We Meet Again"This shot was taken in Colorado by my cousin but we wanted to post it now to show us riding...... Homeward bound and thankful! We know how fortunate we are to be able to make this type of trip happen and we are so grateful to have been able to spend time with my cousins and the rest of our family we saw. God is good and we are blessed. Pulling into our driveway on a sunny evening we felt happy, rejuvinated, and were talking about the next adventure!
End of the 2011 Mountain High Journey. Home again......Some of the statistics we kept:
* Bike- 2011 Electra Glide Ultra Classic
* Traveled a total of 5, 093.2 miles--- have a total of 15,832 miles on the bike since we bought it a year ago.
* Trip lasted 30 days
16 nights were camping
6 nights in hotels
7 nights in families homes
* Visited 6 states and 3 of them going both ways!
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, & Colorado
* 90% of the routes were on state highways or smaller
* Temperatures ranged from 32-102 degrees- hotter sitting on the bike with gear!
* Premium gas cost ranged from $3.69-4.29 a gallon
* Averaged 40 mpg pulling our little trailer!
* Spent 80% of our trip at elevations higher than 4,500 feet and reached a high of 11,000+ a few times.
* No injuries, no illness, no accidents, no issues (that couldn't be overcome)!
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