A whole-hearted apology to Texas-west Texas in particular. In the last few years, I may have said that Texas is the ugliest state ever. I now know there are far uglier places. In addition to northeastern Wyoming……Southern Montana….Eastern Washington-Spokane in particular, which may be the single ugliest city I’ve ever seen! Sorry if anyone is from there. Truly! Just kidding. Hahaha! By the time we took the turn onto Highway 2, we were both so tired of the landscape we wanted to scream.

Tuesday marked 9 weeks on the big road trip. I got a message on my iPhone saying I need to purchase more space in iCloud or start deleting, so I went through our trip photos backwards and got rid of duplicates or photos that just weren’t that good. It made me re-live some of the great times we have had. It makes me a little sad that the trip is almost over…….. We went as far as Missoula, MT. Drove through Billings, Bozeman, and Butte. So, basically most of southern Montana.

We got to Wenatchee, WA late Wednesday afternoon for a quick visit with Rick’s brother Jim and wife Renee’. Hadn’t seen them in forever and had a very nice visit! Afterwards we headed to Leavenworth for a little dose of Germany. As if Rick didn’t have enough German the last couple of months…. But I needed a dose. Wienerschnitzl and Pomme Frites! They tried to serve it with spaetzle (which is a German noodle) and that’s just not okay in my book…. It has to be French fries, darn it!  It finally got prettier in the Leavenworth area! Our hotel is on the Wenatchee river with a balcony overlooking the river. Note to my brother-in-law, Hal, who has told me for the last 30 years that Leavenworth is not worth seeing: I call B***S***!

Thursday morning started out chilly and drizzly. We walked around Leavenworth and in and out of the many cute shops. Rick is not a shopper. I may have mentioned this before. So the only things we bought were some adorable stuffed animals for the nieces and nephews we would see when we got to Anacortes. There isn’t much room in our car for anything extra at this point anyway.

A quick apology to anyone who posted a message in the last few days. I have been inundated with BS spam, to the tune of up to 125 per day. So, when I sign on to the blog, the first thing I have to do is go through the messages and mark them as approved, spam or trash. I may have accidentally deleted some that I should have approved. I wish I knew how to block this evil intrusion, but unfortunately they are not all from the same sender or I imagine it would be pretty simple.

Some photos. Next stop, Anacortes.