Escape

School was ramping up and the retires were doing what they always do... making plans when us working souls had to work and then chide us to get time off at the worst possible time.

Plus is was going to be a wet weekend, extremely wet and brutally wet weekend. So seeing as I couldn't take Friday off, seeing as it was my birthday weekend, I told Mrs. RedTigre we were heading South to the good stuff and Saturday morning off we went.

Heading out of Wenatchee saw the skies opening up to patchy clouds and cool temperatures as we did the familiar Hwy 28 out toward Quincy, White Trail Road to Rd. 6, Adams Road, and Frenchman hills to breakfast at Mardon Resort and Hwy 17. Cutting the path through Warden on the Lind-Warden Hwy to Lind and a shot across the 395 south onto Hwy 21 (Lind-Kahlotus) to Wastuchna/Palouse Falls and a break at Lyons Ferry and 75° warmth

Mistress hit 101,000 miles here... damn fine bike.

Look at that blue sky!

We went on through Starbuck, Pomeroy and Clarkston before taking the Asotin/Enterprise Highway (Hwy 129) for curve after curve after curve after curve... and entered Enterprise to find "Mule Days" had locked up every motel in the area. So, getting dark and running out of options we got lucky and found a place at the South end of Lake Wallowa at the Eagle Cap Chalet.

It was dark when we pulled in but the morning found us again with blue skies and 70° starting off.

 

Return trip were some roads new to us, out on the 82 to the 204 north at Elgin, up to Milton-Freewater and then a side road that brought us though Umapine and onto Hwy 12 at Touchet.

Umapine School

We followed the 12 to Road 68 at Pasco, up Taylor Flats to Sagebrush Hill, Othelly, the back roads to O'Sullivan lake and a return trip across the basin to home.

Perfect weather once out of Wenatchee, warm sun, no wind, Mrs. RedTigre and a fine weekend.