Yesterday we crossed the Continental Divide just before arriving in Butte. Forgot to mention that!

Today we traveled west from Butte through Missoula and on through Idaho to Washington state. We are staying at a nice family-run hotel in Moses Lake, WA. It's so interesting to see how the landscape changes so dramatically in such a relatively short distance.

South Dakota is flat as a board in the east, then turns to the Badlands and Black Hills in the west. Wyoming and Montana are then rolling, dry hills in the east rising to green, steep sided Rockies by the time you hit Idaho. We were only in Idaho for an hour, but we didn't see a single spud. What gives? The part of the state we saw was mountains, evergreens, and a giant lake.

Washington state, the eastern part anyway, is incredibly dry and empty. And I mean EMPTY. No offense, but I don't see why someone would choose to live here given any other option. From the looks of it, not many people do! Of course, we're in the middle of the state right now. Supposedly the other part of the state is considerably wetter... No indication of that from this vantage point.

Tomorrow we board the ferry. Not sure what sort of online connection capability I'll have. So if you don't see many posts for a while.... That'd be why.

Tonight we're going bowling at the alley next door, owned by the same owner as this hotel.