First post from the road

Great tune by an underrated band.

I'm writing this from a bagel shop in Coeur D'Alene, ID that is open on memorial day for some reason. It's been a good journey thus far, but it has only begun.

On Saturday I got all packed up and said goodbye to my roommate of 3 years. It was anticlimactic except for him standing in the driveway watching me drive off into the sunset. I then hopped on the ferry one last time and went into Seattle to stay with my girlfriend. We went out to my favorite sushi place and then meet up with friends for buckets of High Life.

The state park I stayed at last night

Yesterday morning I slept in and then hit the road. I drove over the lush cascades and down into the dryer Yakima valley. As I was driving I began to think about cool things I could do on the trip. I really thought it would be nifty if I had a dashboard camera and could make a video of my drive condensed down to a couple of minutes. But I don't have a dashboard cam. But I did start taking pictures as I drive that I may compile at the end into a video.

Martin Stadium

I also decided to visit as many college football stadiums as possible, which luckily I decided in time to veer off route and head to Pullman, WA (Washington State) and Moscow, ID (U of Idaho). It took me a bit out of my way and I didn't make it to the Coeur D'Alene National Forrest like I planned, so instead I camped at a state park south of Coeur D'Alene.

THE KIBBIE DOME!!!!

Today I'm off to Glacier National Park and hopefully will be making camp beneath the giant ponderosas of the Lewis and Clark National Forrest.