On the road again.....

Back from our 2000 mile journey from chilly (single digits!) Minnesota to pick up our new ride. Felt more safe, comfy, and gas guzzling than the last 4 times we drove the route, even though this time it was a one way....thankful to have made it home safely. Some highlights:

Wyoming- this state is so incredibly beautiful it's a shame only 500,000 peeps live there. Maybe that's the key to its beauty. Wyoming is the REAL west, folks. With REAL cowboys and REAL antelope and REAL falling down barns. The rockies are majestic, (sorry I have no pictures to prove it-we decided to capture them only in our mind's eye this time) craggy, and a bit humbling.

Took exit 101 off I-90 and ate Easter dinner at the Montana Club in Missoula. Down home eats, nice people and the "microclimate" (as one Albertan we met put it) which provided us with the best weather of the whole trip- 65 degrees.

Snow over Snoqualmie pass- thought the cold weather would taper off the closer we got to home, but the elevation whipped up a batch of thick flakes that had me remembering Prince's song "Sometimes it snows in April..."

Now we're home, and I'm wondering why I didn't go as stir crazy as I usually do. Crossing six states in three days usually does that to me, but I felt pretty sane. Maybe it's the new wheels- a proper gift for such a long trek. Maybe it's just feeling grateful for the opportunity to road trip, see the country, play silly car games, sing together, and have some distance from home. Sure makes you want to come back...