Back to the Evergreen Northwest

Here is our route for our first trip in February. Tacoma to Salt Lake City, over to Stockton and then north again to Tacoma. No bad weather- YAY- but it is still winter everywhere east of the pacific coast mountains. It was great to get back to the Pacific northwest and see green again.


Here is a picture from my favorite Rest Area in Oregon. It is a thrill for me to be back under the evergreens after a week of driving in the more arid places in the american west. In my experience there doesn't seem to be any place out side of the Pacific Northwest (and the redwoods of CA) that grows towering trees like these.