LeMons Rally Y'all! Road trip day the Third

"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
08/17/2016 at 10:57 • Filed to: None

A very long day. Too long.

We dawdled a bunch getting going this morning, stopping for things here, there, and all over the place. Heat was a huge theme, with the longest stop being at a Home Depot just inside Oregon (Pasco maybe?) to collect materials for and construct an ice-box a/c for the occupants of the Impala. We also hit up an O’Riley’s so while that was going on, I changed the blower motor resistor pack in the Jeep. It’s nice having intermediate speeds, for the first time in four years.

South-east Washington and north-east Oregon are hot, dry, and kinda boring to drive through.

Initially we planned on going past Bend, but with heat problems we decided best to make a bee-line for the coast where we assumed it would be cooler.

It wasn’t really by much until we hit the absolute edge of the ocean, but we wouldn’t realize that until the next day. I-84 to Portland and the 1-5 south to Grants Pass where we spent the night. Looked like the interstate south might have gone by some more spectacular scenery we missed in the dark.

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DISCUSSION (4)

lone_liberal > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
08/17/2016 at 12:13

Extreme south-east Washington has the Blue Mountains but other than that it is rather boring to drive through. The best way to go across the state is a more northerly route through the North Cascades Highway, but since you were heading toward Oregon that’s pretty moot. On 395 you would have gone through the Tri-Cities (Richland, Pasco and Kennewick) shortly before the Oregon border and the Umatilla once across.

More importantly, can we talk about the artificially low speed limit on I84 across Oregon? It’s just stupid slow.

Chasaboo > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee
08/17/2016 at 12:15

I used to drive cross country in a small pickup truck.

They suck at that.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > lone_liberal
08/17/2016 at 12:36

Yeah, we definitely went through Pasco. I just couldn’t remember where the Home Depot we stopped at was.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Chasaboo
08/17/2016 at 12:37

The Comanche hasn’t been too bad. Interior space is definitely at a premium, but otherwise it’s been good.