| 24 days and 4,971 miles; we have finally landed at our destination! Sun shined in our faces as we made our descent from the snow packed Cascades onto the Puget Sound. Too many experiences to fully explain have filled our lives over the past month. We both are a changed people, having grown from shared experience. Now reality is setting in, rent, utilities, groceries, credit card bills, furnishing the new apartment, aigh. Something in both of us, as we opened the door to our new apartment, in the out-flowing of pure excitement seeing our new life, the question was asked "do you want to get back on the road?" We laughed, truly happy with our new home, the transient time we spent on the road will always stay with us, where ever our lives lead us to. Since Sedona, or trip has sped up a bit from the multiple month long anticipation of our new apartment neither of us has seen. Rented over the internet on craigslist, based off only blurry pictures of only parts of the place, we were in store for a treat. We were pleasantly surprised about what we found; The location, extra space, and a garage! | ||
The final leg of our journey: Scottsdale, AZ: Much enjoyed time with Ed and Jackie at their home below Camelback Mountain. | ||
 | Grand Canyon National Park: What a big canyon. Our jaws dropped and we approached the rim. The sheer sight of the canyon puts life into perspective, one sees how little they are in the world. Exiting the chaos the grand canyon village is, we found a few great look-outs. That's me looking the wrong way. |
Zion National Park: Great park. Another visit is in store for us. Absolutely majestic. | ||
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Provo, UT: Kelly's was born in Provo, so we thought a stop for the night was needed, to see her baby stomping grounds. | ||
 | Great Salt Basin: Great 15 min stop to get out and run around. This is where they do speed tests. Endless tire track go off into the distance. |
Boise, ID: Very clean, newly built, and surprisingly warm. This city surprised us both, I guess we had little to base any assumption off for it. Yakima, WA: This city looks like it is about to blossom. Washington is now the 2nd largest producer of Vino behind California. Yakima sits very close to the Columbia River Valley's explosion of new vineyard that I can say produce pretty darn good wine. 10 years ago the land that hold these new vines were simply wheat fields. Alki Beach, Seattle WA: Well, this is us now. View of Bainbridge Island, Vashon Island, Olympic National Park, and of course the Puget Sound. A hundred years ago this place was called New York Alke, ironic ending from where we started. | ||
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| Thanks to all and let us know if you are in town! Kelly and Fraser  | ||
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