Day 23 - (9-12-12) - Kamloops, BC to Lynnwood, WA

Kamloops to Lynnwood

Maryann Here
no pics today
didn't want to take anymore pics of pine trees.
Today we left Kamloops and believe it or not it was 41 degrees out.  We drove for around six hours today and I can't express how excited I am to be out of the land of the pine forest.  For the last 6 days all we've seen is huge pine trees, small pine trees, pine beetle dead trees forest fire dead pine trees and deep green pine trees just everywhere you could look. 

So here we are now in the land of cement.  Cement bridges, cement roads, cement walkways yes everywhere you look it's cement.  But it's Seattle so what can one expect.  But on the up side, we have trees that do not begin with the word 'pine.' 

At 11:30am today we said our farewell to Canada as we entered the U.S.  Jim and I were just driving along when I looked back to see if Mike and Judy had made it thru customs and all I could see was their car bouncing up and down.  I thought for a minute that the road was erupting under them, but on closer inspection, I saw Judy in her car doing the happy dance with her phone waving in the air.   She had the biggest smile on her face that I've ever seen.  Mike said for at least 75 miles she didn't say a word as she was totally focused on her pink phone.   She told me ahead of time that she was flexing her fingers getting ready for texting when she could use her phone again.

We have stopped for the night in Lynnwood,WA and will move on down close to Jim's sons house tomorrow where we will be for the next two days.  And..... then it's time for the Alaskan cruise.  

We are in what's called The Hotel International and it's really really nice.   We usually don't stay in hotels but this one had a great rating and it's well deserved.  Very nice and as clean as can be too.  So we have wifi and breakfast included and the rates are very reasonable.

We hope to get to see the Space Needle and to Pikes Market tomorrow.  Traffic is a bear tho so who really knows if that will happen.   

That's it for today, hopefully tomorrow we will have more to post.  We've had a couple of driving days with not much going on.