day two

june 25, woodinville to the potholes in eastern washington, 207 miles.
an uneventful trip over the cascades to mom's house. decided to take stevens pass across the cascades because it's more scenic. the warming temperatures are causing the snowpack to melt rapidly, which in turn is making the rivers run fast and high. one of my favorite waterfalls, deception falls, is on highway 2 going over the mountains. it's more of a tumbling, rumbling falls than a drop over a cliff, and its spray was keeping the footbridge nice and wet. don't know why it's called deception falls. maybe because it's deceptively hidden beneath the highway. if you're going 60 mph down the road (remember, i never exceed the speed limit), you wouldn't know it's there. most interesting things along the route: a crop-dusting helicopter (hadn't seen one of those before) and tractor magazine, a magazine (like house-selling magazines) devoted to selling tractors and combines and balers and seeders and stuff. these things are not cheap. one combine was for sale for just under $300,000. the magazine itself reminded me of a trip to green bay, wisconsin, with the seahawks years ago. the writers stayed at the howard johnson's in green bay, and the three magazines offered in the hotel lobby were playboy, penthouse and the green bay packer magazine. so maybe i shouldn't have been surprised to see tractor magazine in a place like moses lake, washington. did that anecdote make any sense?
today: the potholes to salt lake city, or however far down the road i get.