July 10, 2009 - Maple Valley to Elgin, OR

Friday, July 10 - Traveling I-90 to Ellensburg, then headed SE I-82 towards Yakima, we decided to stay with the Interstate - hitting I-84 East eventually to take us into LaGrande, OR. We got off to a fairly early start, on the way to our 4 day weekend in NE Oregon, we weren't too sure of who would be joining us on the road. Imagine our delight at the following...



These guys actually passed us.

It was a day for some serious shades:

Surprised she had enough peripheral vision left to notice us!



Guys' weekend starting early?

Scary dude - wasn't too keen on having his picture taken.

Not sure if he was waving, or trying to block the girl from the shot.

Not sure if he's puckering up or disgusted with us.

This guy needs to clean his windows!

She looked happy for the diversion from the solo drive.

Not just a smile, but an out-the-window wave!

Okay...here's our favorite of favorite pictures thusfar:

This 18-wheel driver, not only was on the hand-held cell phone... BUT

drinking coffee with his "free" hand! WHO WAS STEERING?!

Howdy.

Practicing with the zoom lens - this was on a side road, we were still on the freeway.

Looks a bit like John Cleese bracing for something!

Like mother, like daughter?

If you look closely - you can see the cobwebs on this guy.

Perhaps this guy should give our phone-and-coffee driver a tip about headgear.

Wonder if he's watched the movie RV with Robin Williams.

Nice flames Harley!

Looks like she's on her way to the beach...but headed the wrong direction!

We will let this one speak for itself.

Yes, that does apear to be a rack - though not for the bike.

Yup -he has all 5 fingers on that hand.

Four fingers on this one?

Could be only 3 fingers here!

And we are back to 5 again! Yeah!

The cammo window visors lend a nice touch.

Another cheerful female driver.

If this one had subtitles, he would be singing "on the road again..."

Clearly headed off to a camping vacation, much too clean to be returning!

Hey! You are going the wrong way, the address is Maple Valley!

Clearly, keep your extremities inside the vehicle doesn't apply when a camera is pointed your way!

This guy is an efficient packer. Looks like they are going to have lots to unpack wherever they are going!

Hiya! Can we get an Air Horn?

She made sure to smile and wave, so we could get a good shot.

Hopefully he has cruise control on.

We have been waiting and waiting to see when we get "the finger". We almost got it here...

Refused to look - maybe she was sleeping?!

"Why would someone be taking our pictures?"!

Towing the mother-in-law unit behind.

Happy Trails...

Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear!

Until the next road trip...

May 23, 2009 - Maple Valley to Leavenworth

A trip over Snoqualmie Pass, together with a ga-zillion of our closest friends, all seemingly headed to the Gorge for The Sasquatch Festival - a 3-day, Memorial Day weekend show. The good news...bumper to bumper traffic over the Pass gives us LOTS of people-watching opportunities! Check out some of our fellow travelers...

Going to our first concert at the Gorge! Boy are we psyched!


Taking the extra traffic time to catch up on phone calls.

If we rub his head, will he grant us our wish to be off the Pass?

Say cheese!

Not such a happy guy...hard to see this, but he has a whole Star Trek ensemble in boxes in his backseat. Maybe he just figured out he was headed to the Sasquatch Festival, and not to The Enterprise.


Getting a killer reflection from the mirrored shades.

Bill Gates look-a-like here. Though I doubt Bill would be driving a box truck.

Hope this guy looks around a bit more when he is kayaking.

Gotta love hippies - even if they are too young to remember Woodstock.

No autographs please...says Kenny Chesney.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

WATCH THE ROAD MAN!

He should've been happy to realize that he wasn't wasting much gas sitting in the Pass traffic.

Checking out all the young guys on their way to the concert.

Guess when you have a trunk the size of a postage stamp, it's reasonable to have to strap your chairs on the outside!

Arrf, arrf, arrf...keep driving sucker...don't stop until I tell you to stop.

Wondering just how many more trees he's gonna have to pass before he can pull off a the next rest area.

Dad got suckered into chaperoning this time.

Usually roller coaster riders are a bit happier at the end of the ride.





Guess she thought she would do a little rain dance on the side of the highway...

This hippie IS old enough to remember Woodstock...




WE FOUND SASQUATCH - who needs the festival!