Our road trip has started well, with sunny weather, good food, and an open road. On Wednesday, we loaded up the car at Linda’s and headed east, over Blewett Pass to Wenatchee. There, we stopped to see Ohme Garden, a green and manicured oasis on the top of a hill overlooking the city and the Columbia River.
We ate a picnic lunch at the nearby Wenatchee Confluence Park, where the Wenatchee River joins the Columbia. Then we headed east on Hwy. 2, through the wheat fields and small farming towns to Spokane. We managed to arrive in Spokane during rush hour, so our open road suddenly got more crowded. We waded through and emerged in Idaho.
Along I-90, in the panhandle of Idaho, we were so fortunate to find the Center of the Universe. That’s what Wallace, Idaho calls itself. It is a quaint old mining town, dating back to the late 1800s. We stopped to experience the Center and take pictures, then continued driving. We made it to our Days Inn hotel on the outskirts of Missoula about 9:30 pm. There, Linda made dinner on her 2-burner cookstove in the room.
Lori's Travels 