Our six days in the National Parks flew by. Rather than spend two full days on the return journey we had enough time yesterday to drive all the way to Ogden and make the final 778 mile jaunt home in a single 12-hour push. We’ve done this twice before so it’s getting easier. The weather was perfect and we listened to almost all of a Louise Penny Inspector Gamache mystery, A Trick of the Light. As we got closer to North Bend the weather changed to a light drizzle but we were again impressed with the natural beauty right here where we live. Puffy low clouds hung around the lush green mountainsides and scores of spring-thaw waterfalls cascaded along I-90 through Snoqualmie Pass. We got home in time to have frozen pizza in our own kitchen.

Speeding past Lake Kachess on I-90