Budget Inn Walla Walla

So as I set off from San Francisco alone in the car, the open road my only friend, the birds in the sky my only guides, an all to familiar feeling began to wash over me. Hunger. I had been too lazy to get up for breakfast again. Having decided some weeks back not to exist solely on fast food, I finally decided to take that decision seriously and drove in search of a health ...

We flew from SF to Seattle to pick up the bikes. It wasn't the greatest weather to ride in, a bit rainy and cold, but we went over some great mountains. We managed to get about 400km done and quite far east. We wanted to get away from the bad weather as quick as possible.

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On Sa**************ed south along the Columbia River, past irrigated orchards of apples, cherries, potatoes (?), grapes. Arrived in Tri-Cities, set up camp in Hood Park (Army Corps of Engineers) where Snake and Yakima rivers join the Columbia.
Today we visited Ice Harbor Lock & Dam, saw huge salmon and carp move through the fish ladder on their way upriver. Had ...

... I should have said "giants"!). The Richland Hampton Inn was a welcome sight by the time we got off the road.

We went back to dinner at the nearby Anthony's Restaurant. I had a glass of champagne and Chris had a Washington cab. We had a wonderful ahi tempura appetizer. I ate the salmon/halibut duo while Chris had halibut simply prepared. Everything tasted great!


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... middle of nowhere, near Kendrick, ID to be specific. A nice guy named Jim, pulled over and helped us for about an hour try to cool the van down. Luckily we had lots of water with us. So, after that great fun, we had to start back tracking down to Lewiston Id, again. It was about 9PM last night and we pulled in to, I guess, an RV park. There was 5 concrete ...

... the place that all the wagon trains met before heading off to points further west so the town was full of bordellos and taverns. It sounds like it would have been quite the place back then. Sunday, I'm going to start heading further north. I'll probably spend the night in Couer d'Alene and then meet up with mom, Bev, Punk and Phil at Glacier on Monday. I hope everyone is doing well! Pictures are coming soon!

Today was the day 5 was supposed to be leaving. Instead, China Airlines cancelled my flight so I am stuck in Walla Walla for one more day. Oh well, that will just give me time to get everything together. I have a few places I need to go and errands to take care of. I also need to pack, which will take quite a bit of time itself. I packed my backpack with my ...

Got to do a youth drama workshop weekend. Lots of fun, except for the getting sick part. We got a great contact for the following week and came back to do a Palm Sunday program the following weekend. I was excited to do a singlet called "Action Beyond Reason" the play talks about the confusion from the position ...

Arriving to Walla Walla today was an easy 4 plus hours drive from Seattle. The weather seems to have cooled down from the over 90* I heard it was. I checked into a super cute newly renovated home downtown called Cherry Cottage. I have WiFi access and all the movies in Hi-DEF on the nice flat screen. The beds feel really comfortable. After checking in from the lock box, I went out to the airport to visit with some wineries. I had my old favorites from Dunham ...