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15I should've done a lot of things before this trip: paid my cellphone bill, my student loans, shoulda shipped some (more) crap homeward, taken a day to say goodbye to Seattle (by eating a ton of Thai Tom and Cedars and riding the Space Needle up and down for an entire day), shoulda changed my forwarding address and all of that minutiae that responsible adults ought do when the time comes. Responsible. Adults. I'm twenty five danged years old and I can't balance a checkbook (well, I mean, I can, thank you third grade math with Mrs. Pearson, but why balance when you can get that old casino thrill everytime you buy coffee?). But no regrets, right? Got to start out this little journey the best way possible, with a couple of nights in the woods with my Americopsmates, and up and over the Cascades on a road half-tarred and half gravel and all chewed up with road construction. Outside of that, the climb was nice, and it really is true what they say: what goes up, well...
So I've managed to do a lot of cheap eating (thank you, State of Washington for not paying a living wage and feeding me with stamps, suckers) and cheap camping (thank you National Forest Service for your mismanagement of our shared resources, your large tracts of very disturbed, and totally free, scrublands), and have worked a fine set of saddle sores into my comparatively pasty hind end. Enough talk... let's go to the pics, shall we?
My sister warned me that this shit would be tricksy, and I've managed to hose it up- I'll do better next time, promise, but for now, here goes:
1 a welcome sign just outta Spokanistan, after a sea of SUVs and W04 stickers
2 Mando-cammando and her rocking MFA mates party down with Moh-Hee-Toes.
3 WA loves hydro-power, a dang, dang lot. This is the second biggest HP plant in the nation.
4 Middle WA is diamondback country, er, rattler country. It wasn't decayed enough to steal the skull, c'est l vie.
5 Outside of Coulee City, the Dry Falls used to be 10 times bigger than Niagara (yeah, Niagara. yeah), but the Columbia decided to move on over. (into a giant reservoir powering a dam... I think it happened before that, but who's o say what the Army Corps is capable of).
6 Kim. See this? Love it.
7 Free camping next to the Wenatchee R. outside of Leavenworth, the crazy Bavarian City.
8 Good to see that the inmates found it in their cold black hearts to take a stand, united, against litter.
9 Is this Mississippi circa 1856, or Columbia Valley, 20-aught-7? I sure hope the 700 mile border fence works, so I can go back to 4 bucks an hour and a shack and the hot sun and a rickety ladder and all the other glorious stuff I did in Apple country.
10 When it rains, it pours, and so I snuck into this (meth?) shack full of rat poo and broken tvs, and snapped some glamour shots. nice.
11 ...is what I am. I'll miss the soft glow of the Desperado house. and Vincent's ghost.
12 Speaking of, here are the roomies now. Wallace Falls S.P. is a pretty little hike...
13 the Americorpspeople, minus Michelle, Maggie, and Katie, at our sneaky little campsite on the Skykomish.
14 Mikey rocking the Power Lunge on the way up to...
15 Stevens Pass, with D-rock, Ron and Mikey perched up. Helluva way to start a trip, eh?
2 comments:
Hey bro! I told you, it's kinda tricky...but hey, you can also add the comments so they're right under the pics, that way your readers don't have to keep scrolling up and down to figure out what the H they're looking at! Once they're downloaded on there, just click next to each one and hit enter, then type your comment! Additionally, nice pics, and the meth shack proved to have a pretty sweet view!!! Keep on keepin' on!
Love ya!
Lil Sis
that squirrel restaurant is so great. let's buy it someday. a hostile takeover, of sorts...
see you soon, my soulmate.
i can't wait to see you again! hooray hooray hooray
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