This has been another amazing drive! I hope I never lose the sense of awe I feel as we drive across this grand nation of ours. I've added a slide show to the blog page so you can view more pictures. If you click on the picture, it will open another window so you can see the pictures full screen. Some are better than others. Please keep in mind that most of these are taken from inside the cab while in motion.... This is definitely a trucker's point of view.
We left South Dakota around 10 am EST on Friday heading to Port Hadlock, Washington. This is a special load so our stops were limited to no more than 3 1/2 hours at a time, so there was no stopping to sleep for the night. We arrived at our destination about 11 pm EST Saturday, so we did over 1600 miles in 37 hours. Not bad. LOL We even took our time...in Montana where the speed limit was 75, I was doing about 60 just because we didn't want to get here any sooner than necessary. For those of you that know me....you KNOW I would have LOVED being able to legally drive 75 mph!!!
Along the way, we saw beautiful landscape as well as amazing wildlife. We went through/past several national forests and parks. We saw bison and pronghorn antelope. There was an area with several small bodies of water littered with beaver huts. Some were small and some were huge! We watched a bald eagle fly parallel to the highway and we saw a coyote walking across the ice of a small lake. We also saw one cute little skunk!!
Driving through the mountain passes was incredible!! There was a lot of snow on the ground going from Montana to Idaho as well as about two inches of fresh snow. We saw hundreds of snow-mobilers headed for a show/competition in Idaho. The moon is close to being full so even at night the view was breath-taking.
We are on the military base until we can unload tomorrow morning, and we couldn't ask for a more beautiful place to wait. We are surrounded by a huge stand of towering pines and there is only the occasional military police patrol for traffic. Other than not being able to have a campfire, it feels just like camping! Including the outhouse (porta-potty)! I told you this truck was 1/3 RV, 2/3 truck!!! And we're getting paid to do this. Oh yeah, we get to remove Montana, Idaho and Washington from our list of states we haven't visited and tomorrow we should get to remove Oregon as we are tentatively scheduled to pick up a load in Portland on Tuesday.
Hope you enjoy the pictures. Let me know if you have problems viewing them.
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