Pacific Northwest Backroad Adventures

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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This past Saturday was a typical spring day in Western Washington - “Rain Turning to Showers”. Of course, if you never lived in Washington, you may be puzzled by such a forecast. I wanted to get out of the house and do something outside so I checked the statewide forecast for Washington. The coast was supposed to clear up that afternoon and Eastern Washington was going to mostly cloudy but only a 20 percent chance of rain. Sweet, over the Cascades we go.

With no real destination in mind, my son Steven and I loaded up the dog, camera gear and some basic emergency supplies (sleeping bag, tools, water, food, etc. in case the unexpected happens) in the Land Cruiser and left our home in Edgewood, Washington and headed east on I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass.

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