We are getting geared up for our busy season at the store. It usually means that we work at, or at least visit, the shop every day until mid-November. Yesterday, I was feeling antsy and wanted to do something different and knowing that we wouldn't get much time off for awhile, we decided to go for a drive. I thought it would be about 5-6 hours but it ended up being about 8.5 hours including stopping for dinner.
Most people think that Washington State is all rainy, all the time. Washington State has quite a diverse geography and climate. There is rainforest, mountains (with lots of snow), plains and high desert. We took a few pictures along the drive (desolate beauty) and this one shows the gorge near Coulee City:
We left Leavenworth, drove NorthEast to Coulee City, along Banks Lake, through Electric City and Grand Coulee (where the dam is) where we stopped for an hour. After leaving there, we drove West through Bridgeport, Brewster, and Pateros, stopping in Chelan for dinner. We ate at Campbell's Resort and had a really good dinner and then back home.
A little information about the dam:
The Grand Coulee Dam, located on the Columbia river in central Washington, is the largest concrete structure in the United States. It forms the centerpiece of the Columbia Basin Project, a multipurpose endeavor managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. In addition to producing up to 6.5 million kilowatts of power, the dam irrigates over half a million acres of Columbia river basin farm land and provides abundant wildlife and recreation areas.
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