Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Winter Excursion 9, Day 241

We left Liberty Lake around 0830 and started the 325 mile drive to Joint Base Lewis McChord Fam Camp near Tacoma, WA.
We started seeing some more snow capped mountains just to the west of Spokane, WA.


We got this view of Mt Rainer just before we crossed the Columbia River.
This is I-90 going down into the Columbia Gorge.
The drive was not too bad until we got off of I-90 onto Rt 18. This was about 50 miles from our destination. That last 50 miles took over 2 hours. The traffic in the Seattle-Tacoma I-5 corridor is horrible. We saw two accidents and had numerous stops and slowdowns. After 275 miles of interstate this 2 hours of traffic was nerve racking to say the least.
We finally got to our campsite. It is the same one we were in 6 years ago with Jacob.
It had lots of shade which was nice as temps are hovering around 90. We will be here for five days.