Past the halfway point

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Shay here, from a hotel room in Missoula, MT. We are relaxing in relative luxury for a night before heading up to Glacier tomorrow. We have to drop the dogs off for a stay at a kennel, since they are not allowed in the park. They are not excited about it, as is evidenced by the fact that they are both pouting on the hotel room floor. I think they can smell the bath water coming, kind of like how you can smell a big storm blowing in on the wind. Sorry we haven't been keeping up with the blog. It's been great getting to see family and friends for the past few weeks, but it doesn't give us much time to log in and upload pics and stuff. And then there was the little mishap with the windshield and a rock - which resulted in a wasted day in Portland waiting for the new windshield to get installed. Okay, not a wasted day entirely - we did get some laundry done while we were hanging out. This delay caused us to miss our ferry to Vashon Island in Tacoma, so our plans got rearranged a bit and we ended up just driving up into the Cascades and spending the night in a great campground called Wish-Poosh, on Cle Elum Lake. It was beautiful, if a little mosquito-ey (is that a word?) and we had a nice relaxing afternoon and evening there before driving across WA and Idaho to end up in Missoula tonight. So that's the news. I'm going to attempt to put some pics up while I have the use of the hotel's free wireless so you can all see some of what we've been up to. Take care y'all! Oh, by the way, I was playing with the fun photo shop on my computer and did some modifications to a few of the pics. Hope you like them.

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Photos

Hide and Seek
This is all we saw of the Golden Gate Bridge when we drove through SF.

Bear Harbor
Just a quick day trip to Bear Harbor - the dogs couldn't go with us, which we didn't know, so we just did a quick hike in and out to get some photos, since they weren't too happy about having to stay in the car.

Claire at BBQ
Kate's mom at the 4th of July bbq in Petrolia, CA.

Flat Iron
Shay sitting (illegally) on a fallen redwood tree.

The Long Road
Shay hiking down the Lost Coast, CA.

Driftwood Moon
A driftwood house on the Lost Coast with the moon above it, at twilight.

Lone Traveler
Kate coming down the beach on the Lost Coast hike.

Sunset
One of the beautiful sunsets we experienced while on the Lost Coast hike.

Adventure Princess
Ah yes, Emma G's wild side is back - no more sore feet.

Wading Wonders
Kate and Bela cooling off in Cle Elum Lake.

Comments

[Claire/Mama]

You missed a 5.0
...earthquake, that is - last night (Tuesday)...or should I say this morning at 4:41 - off the mouth 8 miles from Petrolia, and 13 miles deep. Zeb called at 8 this morning to see how big it was, and I went on-line to find out. His growing up near Reno didn't let him experience such things! He's fine with it. Nothing fell down, but it was about 10 seconds long. Am glad that your windshield is repaired, and sorry that you missed the ferry! I found your detergent by the washer...you probably already know that. Love, Mama/Claire

[Jesterspet]

Cle Elum Lake
Ya know, I have passed that lake numerous times in my formative years, and have never stopped at it. Maybe it was because it was because I was always traveling to or from Wenatchee (when it was so small that it only had 1 Denny's) and wanted to get out of the eastern Washingtonsummer weather.

[Audrey]

YAY
Glad to see/read you two are okay. Wondering where in the heck you 4 troublemakers were now? All the pics look awesome, can't wait to see more (HINT HINT!). Hope Bela has chilled out and happy to hear Emma G's paws are better. Talk to you sometime.... Audrey

[beth]

all your pics just make me sigh, sigh, sigh... hiking on the coast looks great, i hope you guys are having an awesome time, it sure looks it. :)