Seattle - South

We arrived in Seattle after one night in Spokane, at the Apple Tree Inn. We took US 2 the whole way instead of the interstate and it was a really awesome drive. The best part was getting into Orondo, WA where apple orchards lined the road on either side. All the trees were changing colors and there were a lot of fresh fruit stands. It turns out that Wenatchee County is the apple capital of the world. Other noteworthy fact, Washington has expensive gas (as does California).

We liked Seattle right away (expect for the rain) mostly because Ella lives there. Ella and I were co-captains of the Ultimate team and Haverford and I cannot express in words my fondness of her. We met Ella and her housemates, grabbed some vegetarian thai food and went to a funny little Halloween party. Being as awesome as she is, Ella took off work on Monday so we could all play and we had a nice adventure to Pikes Place market where we ate some killer mac and cheese and found a huge loaf of cinnamon bread, freshly baked, for only $1 (it was a Monday special!).

We had big plans in the seattle area of going to Olympic National Park and the puget sound and exploring the city and, and, and, but couldn’t manage it all - especially because of the rain. The next day we did stop at Mt. Rainer and Mt. St Helens on our way to Portland, both o

f which were very cool! Driving down Mt. Rainer was really exciting (LOOK!)

We wanted to get into Portland kind of early to watch mid-term elections result - mostly got angry - both at the results and the grossness of the Howard Johnsons and so were really exited the next day to head to the PACIFIC.

Portland Coast - AMAZING, then foggy for 7 more hours.

California border - we got stopped at what looked like a toll booth and asked if we had " and fruit or small trees" - very weird.

We ate in Cresent City, CA where there were many wonderful vegetarian options, because, well, California is cool like that.

Camped in the Northern Red Woods - “that tree is so big!” We also went for a short run in the Red Woods, our last before the half marathon and felt very very small.