Across the Country - Day 1

Bothell, WA - Moses Lake, WA
Mileage - 191
Miles Driven - 191


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Today was our first driving day. The plan was to visit with the Straka's for a few hours and hit the road by 3:30PM. As usual, the plans didn't work out. Tom and family came up and we went to the park to play and take pictures. On the way, Tom stopped at Car Toys and bought me a Sirius satellite radio. Cool! Our departure time came and went while we tried to shoehorn a ton of stuff into a half ton trailer.

Finally we hit the road at 6:00PM. Our first stop was Issaquah to briefly meet the Lindleys and drop off the Verizon FiOS router. We stopped at the Verizon Wireless store, but they wouldn't accept it. We said our good-byes to the Lindley's in the parking lot and hit the highway. It was dark before we reached the Snoqualmie summit.

Andrew fell asleep in Bellevue and finally woke up in Eastern Washington and asked, "Where in the world are we?" Then he started noticing 'planets' in the dark black sky and the red lights on the windmills.

We arrived at the Moses Lake Motel 6 at 10:00PM.

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