Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Sep 8, 2004

Tuesday cont’d

Filed in Landmark-Hunting, Travel, Washington 2004

7th Sep, evening

I’m in bed. A fluffy orange and white kitty is playing merrily with a cat toy, mostly because she hasn’t found my hair scrunchie yet. Have made acquaintance with all three cats, the littlest one from a distance, the others from close up. Ganesh, Ariel and Shakti. They’re lovely.

[edit: one of the cat toys turned out to be my toothbrush]

When we crossed the big river and I saw the huge elegant suspension bridge, almost at the mouth, I knew I was in Washington, and we began the descent. Flew over a series of islands and then touched down. I was struck by the number of trees and how the houses seemed to actually have space around them, for the most part.

LV met me at the airport, complete with a pterodactyl on a stick. :: grin :: Easy to spot in a small crowd, and fun to meet mascots.

S was waiting outside, so we set off, and went snarfing. I dug out my penguin and we were off. First we went to a place called Puyallup, which makes me smile because I thought it was pronounced pull y’all up (ah, cat found my scrunchie) but is actually pew-allup. There we snarfed a lovely old house which also had an Oregon Trail (old pioneer trail) marker so was two snarfs; not to mention two churches and a house. The resident was around so I didn’t take pictures, but it was a big Victorian with a sign out front. So far, Washington is not shy about sharing its historyness with us all.

Then we went to Fort um..um…no, I will have to ask. No, wait, I can look at my camera.

Another cat is visiting. The third one is lurking behind him. This is rather funny.

Fort Lewis. There we go.

You can get to see the entry gate, and there were three or four wildcards, now that we’ve started covering memorials. Two big guns and some background info. Big impressive gate. You don’t have to go on base for this one. We could’ve, because S. is ex military, but we didn’t need to.

(Flew over NASA Ames today, and that bridge in Washington…snarfing from several thousand feet up?) ;-)

Then we took some rather pretty roads to Lacey, snarfing along the way, including the first one LV ever snarfed, She-Na-Nam, an Indian treaty site. So far I haven’t seen anything up here I didn’t like. There is a huge volcano, covered in snow, Mt. Rainier â€“ that dominates everything and was quite startling and unexpected when I got off the plane. There are many pine trees and it seems very quiet. Nice motorcycle roads. Many motorcyles: I got a kick out of seeing a lady biker on the freeway.

I’m going to have to leave this for tonight, I’m tired. I wonder if that cat can be persuaded to snuggle with me.