*Road Trip 2015: Stats—New Mexico to Vashon Island, WA

WHITE LIGHTNING’S ODOMETER MILEAGE:

Lv Eldorado/Santa Fe, NM: 89,464 to Crestone CO (visit friend)… Denver (visit family)… Niwot/Boulder, CO (visit friends). Listened to Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Lv Niwot, CO: 89,969 to Boise, ID: 90,773. That’s 804 miles in a day—without too much stress. Listened to Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

Lv Boise, ID: 90,773 to Vancouver, WA/Portland, OR: 91,219

Lv Vancouver, WA/Portland, OR. Stopped to see Mount St Helen’s Visitor Center

Arrive Vashon Island, WA: 91,387

WHOLE TRIP: 1, 923 miles—which includes the miles I drove getting lost (because my Garmin malfunctioned in Denver, which is pretty darn scary when driving at night), going shopping, side excursions, and making trial runs to see if my GPS would fixed itself. It didn’t. I had to replace it.

The Visitor Center is deep in the woods, and definitely geared toward school groups and tourists.

Somewhere out there beyond the marsh is the famous volcanic mountain. Regrettably, I didn’t get even a glimpse of it.

Through my windshield, driving on to the ferry from Point Defiance in Tacoma, WA, to Tahlequah on Vashon Island.  It’s about a 20-minute ride.