donderdag 20 oktober 2011

Driving back to Washington

We were going to go back to Seattle for the weekend, and we wanted to visit North Cascades National Park on our way back, so we were on a tight schedule. Thursday we therefore mostly spent driving. We chose for a scenic route along Banks Lake, the Grand Coulee Dam, and through the Colville Indian Reservation. 

On our way, we passed a tree fully draped with shoes... you know when you tie your laces together, you can throw them over a telephone wire or whatever... it's called shoe tossing and it's a weird American tradition. Apparently also – and probably especially – on the most desolate of places.

It's also nice to see how roads are built here. You want to build a road, and there is a mountain in the way. What to do, what to do? Build around it? Bridges? No, blow up the mountain, of course =)

Nightfall came quick after we passed Coulee Dam. So we didn't see much of the reservation. But we did manage to get to a town (called Brewster) right before North Cascades National Park: our goal for the next day.

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