
East to Wyoming. Once we settled in to our rental house, in Ashland, we had about six weeks to call our own before we had to get down to business. What to do?! What to do?! Road Trip!
Destination Washington, DC
Destination Washington, D.C. We had Dustin’s car with us in Ashland, but we needed to drive his car across country and deliver it to him. We decided to drive the northern route across Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Ohio, PA, and arriving in D.C. on the 27th. The following is the travel journal I wrote as we traveled a lot of roads all the way across this great country of ours. I apologize right up front for some of the photography, part is due to rain, part is due to the fact that we seemingly had an internal smudge on our camera lens. Bah!
East Across Oregon
May 19, 2011. Having spent a lot of time exploring the Pacific Northwest, we purposely pushed through the first 950 miles of our trip in order to have more time to do a bit of sightseeing in the next few days. We left Ashland, OR on Wednesday (Wow! That was just yesterday?) May 18 and took the mountain path to Klamath Falls, which was just spectacular, but we were so focused on the drive we forgot to take the time to stop for photos.
We made our way east across Oregon and I think we drove through every possible ecosystem. There was a stretch of about 150 miles where we maybe saw 10 cars; you know the kind of area you would never want to have car trouble. I knew the American West was alive and well when we came across a herd of buffalo somewhere in the middle of nowhere, OR. We called it a day when we arrived, as planned, in Boise, ID.

Buffalo!
Following the Snake River


Idaho contrasts!
East Again to Wyoming


It was as cold as it looks!

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Evanston, Wyoming


This was the view from the highway near Evanston, where we stopped at McDonald’s. It was so freakin cold!

Hundreds of them along the highway!

Wyoming is flat, flatter, flattest.
Green River, Wyoming
We stopped for the night (as planned) in Green River, WY and I gotta tell ya it is ridiculously cold! We are near the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area and we hope to visit it tomorrow. If the cliffs outside our hotel are any indication, it should be quite a site to see, if we don’t freeze.

When is the last time you saw a scene like this from the parking lot of a hotel?
Plateaus of Wyoming
We are planning a similar trip. Great pictures. I can wait to get this trip started with the family.
Any recommended places to visit that are not in the post?
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