Why Did You Go Where You Went And When

jamesu wrote:
Being in the NW corner of the country, whenever we travel anywhere "new" we pretty much have to back track over old territory on our way home. We love going to new places, and we have some extended trips in the planning stages outside the NW, but we have a route in this state which is east of the Cascades which I enjoy because the scenery is so darn gentle on my soul whenever I travel through it.

The first stop is at a SP in Yakima where we visit with relatives for a few days, and then the rest of the trip is through miles of wheat fields, coulees, river crossings , and then back over the mountains and back home. 950 miles. W. Washington and the Puget Sound has a lot of people and lots of traffic congestion now days. E. Washington: nope. A week/week and a half over there rejuvenates me.

My point is I believe camping closer to home can be just as satisfying as long haul explorations. If you love TT camping it really doesn't matter where you are. Sometimes is just nice to go sit in my TT parked next to my garage.

Ditto for us. We avoid I5 so take 20 either east or west depending on if 20 is open through North Cascades. It is easier to vary our trip heading East due to all the back roads in eastern Washington. We have probably been on every logging road in the Olympic Peninsula. Lots of variations in Eastern Oregon also. When we head down the coast once into Oregon we usually head east from Coos Bay but this varies also. Once into NEVADA, again, as in many back roads especially between highways 50 and 6. Usually, we encounter very few people. From Nevada we head into Utah, ARIZONA, New Mexico, etc. Or from Washington into IDAHO and Montana and Wyoming. We rarely venture further east than Colorado. So much to see in the west.