Spokane to Ontario, Oregon

Today's weather just sucked.  Clouds in the trees, the road in the clouds in places, windy, wet, and cold.  Tomorrow night Spanish Fork is forecast to go into the 20's so all the drugs (prescription), Covid tests, and contact lenses have to come in so they don't freeze.  It makes me irritable to haul all of these things into the hotel, and then have to haul them back out.

I have had a major packing fail, my Clinique moisturizer and both our deoderants are in the cabinet where they always live, and not in the blue bag.  It's aggravating, I did so well on not forgetting stuff until I did.  Good thing it's cold, no one is sweating.

We are at the Holiday Inn Express.  It's not the worst place we've been.  The pros are, big room, lots of horizontal space for spreading out our multitudinous items.  Bathroom is large.  I do hate the shower head.  There is no good setting for the water flow, the shower curtain is not wide enough, so the floor is wet.  They're using a water softener; it's tough to feel really clean, softened water has a slimy feel.  This hotel also charges the refundable $250 "deposit" in case you smoke in the room.  We don't smoke, but house keeping makes the call.  Once you're gone, good luck disputing that charge.  It's just aggravating.  We're on the freeway side of the hotel, I think if there is a next time I would request the other side of the building.  

We did better getting through Kenniwick, but we still messed up on an exit.  GPS sorted us out as soon as we realized we were not where we wanted to be.  Today's key learning was look at the GPS map prior to getting there, and know all of the places where one can go off track and don't do that.  We did have improvement today, I think we've run out of exits to miss.

Here are a couple of photos from today.  Photography was difficult due to the water on the windshield, and the phone camera's insistence on focusing on that, instead of outside.

Oil change and caffeine, everything you need, nothing you don't.

Snow in the area of Deadman's Pass.  It went away as we lost elevation.

Day one out of four is done, three more to go. 

Protector of Women

Good morning People of Earth.  We are up and out early for warmer climes tomorrow.  At present it's in the low 30's with fog.  My favorite weather.

I know we're all sick of the election, but this is too amazing to pass up.  A few days ago, in one of his rallies, the orange sicko was heard to say that he would be the protector of women, whether they wanted him to or not.  Think about that, we have no say as to whether we want his protection or not.  So, that was bad enough.  Now we have this from The New Republic.

Trump’s Promise to Young Men: I Am Your Retribution Against Women

He and his MAGA allies are ramping up the sexism and misogyny as part of a closing message that they will restore men to their rightful place—of total control over women

Cognitive dissonance much?

 

Madam Vice President was on Saturday Night Live last night.  Here is a short clip from the show.  I thought she gave a pretty good performance of being a nice person.

 

So, we're now up and out to complete the process.

 

This is the current state of the back of the car.  There's more to be wedged in there.  The shiny things on the right are deflated Space Saver bags.

 If you haven't voted, please do.