Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

Generally, I don’t like to travel on holiday weekends, especially when it involves going to Eastern Washington. However a day trip on a Sunday isn’t bad - no Monday stop and go traffic over Snoqualmie Pass to contend with.

On Sunday, my son Steven, our dog and myself headed out around 6:00 a.m. over Snoqualmie Pass to Eastern Washington on a photographic tour. After a stop in Ellensburg for gas, coffee and food (plus a few stops on the way for the dog), we headed east on I-90 to Vantage, across the Columbia River and south on SR 243 towards Beverly to head up Lower Crab Creek.
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Now that I have my eight year old daughter interested in photography, there is no way way that she’ll miss an opportunity for a road trip with her dad. Before her new interest in photography, it was agony on even the shortest trip, the typical “are we there yet” or “when are we going to get there?” of an eight year old. That has all changed since my wife and I let our daughter have our recently retired Sony Cybershot DSC-S30 1.3 megapixel digital camera (yes you heard it right, recently retired; replace by a Canon Powershot A550 and a soon to arrive Nikon D80 SLR).

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