Thursday, July 19, 2012
After a great visit with Brookie and her family on
Wednesday, we spent a quiet night at Silver Falls, got up early and headed
north.
Freeways!
Aaarrgghh. Seattle!
Aaaarrrggghhh.
South of Tacoma, the front end of the truck started
shuddering. I was sure every
imaginable mechanical part was disintegrating under the hood. I called a Toyota place and they were
able to get me in. Turns out one
of the balancing doo hickeys had come off a tire, so it was unbalanced. Horribly unbalanced. They fixed it for
me, and we headed north again.
When one thing like that goes wrong, my whole equilibrium is
rocked, and I’m just a mess. After
driving and driving and driving and finding no campgrounds in Washington, it
was a toss up between spending the night in a casino parking lot or in a rest
area. The rest area won. It was noisy, but I got some sleep.
This morning we crossed into Canada with two contraband
potatoes. She didn’t ask. Don’t ask, don’t tell. Right?
The weather has been beautiful, and we stopped early at a
campground near Lac La Hache. It’s
shady here, but very warm. I’ve
been practicing being hot, but I still sweat a lot.
I’m not sure why everyone thinks The Milepost is such a
wonderful thing. I just want the
maps to tell me how many miles are between each place. All those stupid initials just get in
the way and make the math more difficult than it has to be. I’d like to spend the night at Laird
Hot Springs, but I’m not going to drive 8 hours to make that work. Six is about my limit.
Friday.
After deciding that it’s MY trip and I can take as long as I
want, I’m much calmer today. This
is being posted from Williams Lake, a pretty town on … a lake.
Free wifi!
Yay.
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