Trip Recap - Washington/Spokane

So we left lovely Seattle - we had a great time in the city, and Matt's relatives are lovely. We headed east - over the cascades, and then into farmland. For several miles the fields were labeled: alfalfa, potatoes, wheat, potatoes, corn, and then ... peppermint! A whole field of peppermint! And then we passed a tobacco field - unlabeled, but pretty unmistakable.

After farmland we hit blight (archeologists call it lava flow) - dry scrubby bushes on desert rock, pretty desolate. Around Spokane pine trees began, and we called our local Spokanian Chris for a dinner recommendation. It wasn't great food, but it was probably the most *interesting* restaurant in Spokane - the Catacombs. It's underground (a hotel's former boiler room) and they've done it up all "medieval" inside.


You can just make out the wall hangings. Oh, it was ... lovely. :) No, but we both decided that if we had been teenagers in Spokane, we would have hung out here *all* the time.

And then we went to Glacier National Park!