WA, ID, MT in one day

Sorry, My computer died this year and I lost all my Photos from the trip. Never trust a computer.
Sidecar RoadTrip
June 2008
June 9, 2006 to June , 2006
Motorvation Sidecar
941 Fourth Ave
Sibley, IA. 51249



June 9, 2006
Seattle to Missoula, MT. 482 miles

Drive out of Seattle and turn east on Hwy 90 – it will take me all the way to Sibley, IA, except for the last 24.9 miles. As I leave Seattle it is cloudy but no rain as I travel over Snoqualmie Pass, through Vantage and Moses Lake. June is a great time of the year to ride on the East side of the Cascades. The farms in the valleys are so green and fresh smelling. That is something that I have always enjoyed about a motorcycle, you can smell the new grass in the fields as you drive past them. As I approach Spokane, WA. I could see an incredible dark gray wall of storm clouds stretching from the earth to the sky just south of the city. I thought that I might get lucky and skirt just north of them on the highway. NO SUCH LUCK, soon as I crossed into Idaho it started to rain, rain and rain all the way to Missoula, MT. Highway 90 as it leaves Idaho into Montana goes down a long gently twisting valley. As I was heading down this hill in the dumping rain a black car with tinted windows pulls up beside me, the passenger’s window rolls down and this totally tattooed arm comes out and gives me a thumbs-up! I wonder how the rad dude in the car would feel if he knew that he had just given the cool sign to a 40 something, izod wearing, living in suburbia type dude? Find a hotel in Missoula and head out for dinner at Fuddruckers for an awesome burger.