Pacific NW Bucket list

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. On the other side of the Cascades, is Eastern Wa.

I used to drive from Seattle to the Grand Coulee Dam and back again, on a long weekend. The drive is great, the dam is historic.
There is also a place called Dry Falls..look it up....in that area, much like the Grand Canyon, except when the river and falls were running, it was 10x as big. Has a nice little museum that tells how the falls formed.

another superb, not to be missed, drive is over the North Cascades Highway, when it is open late spring to late fall, with some of the most breath taking mountain views in the country. I never got tired of a weekend trip on that drive.

Best time to take these gorgeous drives over the passes, and to use the ferries to see places, is before June and after Sept. when the tourists have gone home. Esp. avoid Whidbey Island ( I used to live there) in tourist season. Whidbey has one 2 lane road, from end to end, and you have not learned patience until you are in a long line of cars and RVs coming off the ferry and driving up the Island at 40 miles an hour. We used to go by "ferry time" everyone had a schedule and we planned our errands around the that.
There is so much to see, and to do, in Puget Sound, you can never be bored.
If it weren't for the lack of sun, I would be there still.

Hope you find your dream spot!!