OUR 2008 TRIP TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST- FIVE SHORT PARTS

Our trip started July 8 and ended August 21, 2008. Our route, roughly, was Branson, MO > Byron, MN > St. Paul, MN > Little Falls, MN > Red Lodge, MT > Couer d’ Alene, ID > Oregon City, OR > Ft. Stevens, OR > La Push, WA > Sequim, WA > Seattle, WA > Moab, UT > Branson. We covered over 4,000 miles in our motorhomes – yes that’s plural – motorhomes. Little did we know when we left that we’d return home in another coach. But more about that later. This trip did fulfill one of our goals in owning a motorhome and traveling the country – we saw and visited with literally dozens of family members and friends living all over the country. It was an amazing part of the trip, seeing someone dear to us almost every day of our travels. Overall the weather was grand – modest amounts of rain and not too sweltering. The cats survived nicely. The pictures here were taken on the road to the Family Motor Coach Association International Rally at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds – almost 3,000 motorhomes: then near Theodore Roosevelt National Park.