Some very beautiful terrain--clear rivers meandering a few yards away from the roadway. Huge mountain peaks with snow and verdant evergreen forests all about us. Stopped to drink from a spring coming right out of the rock.
Crossed all of the Lolo Pass going west through Idaho from Montana (I highly recommend this route!) and worked our way down to Walla Walla (Three Stooges reference--points to anybody who can name the short), on to Umatilla, OR and then to Hermiston, OR. The way through southeastern Washington has slopes with desert like barren surfaces on the north side, but the slopes opposite them on the south are green with grasses and small shrubs. Very hot and dry through this stretch of US-12 and along the Columbia River. Desert is not too far off the mark.
Stopped for a nice dinner for Father's Day and afterward was stopped by a LEO who informed me I'd made a right turn on red at an intersection with two signs saying you can't do such a thing. Two signs? Yes, apparently people didn't see the ONE sign, so the Town put up a second, yet equally invisible sign. I'm sure both of these invisible signs are posted about 20 feet in the air so that pilots can see them with night-vision goggles but for those who are earth-bound or not electronically enhanced, it's hopeless. Lewis and Clark help beat a ticket by looking like, "Hey, Mister Policeman, don't lock-up Pop and Pop-Pop or we won't have anybody to feed us". Just a verbal warning--whew!
Here’s today’s route:
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