Day 06 (Friday, July 4th)

From: Seattle, WA
To: Philomath, OR
Miles: 273
Time in the car: 6 hours
Weather conditions: Cloudy + few showers
Traffic conditions: Heavy traffic leaving Seattle area.
Number of stops: 3
Todays road:

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Pictures:

Day06

Events:
12:00 PM, Leaving the hotel by car
02:22 PM, Leaving Seattle area
05:07 PM, Crossing border to Oregon
07:08 PM, Arrived in Philomath, OR

After a great & heavy breakfast in the hotel, we left the car in it to go on top of the space niddle. Our thing to visit a city is to have a view from the top!! Time is a bit short, we chosen to take the car, top down and run a bit in downtown before heading the Redmond, to see the Microsoft buildings. July 4th, of course, everything was opened except these guys, so just left to drive south. Traffic to exit the Seattle area was pretty heavy, people are driving pretty slow on all lanes. Showers doesn’t help to move the traffic. I finally passed the wheel to Matthieu, I was feeling a bit tired.

Arrived close to Philomath, we just filled up the tank and arrived at the house of the Wilson’s family. I was so happy to see them again after 8 years!! Deanna, Glenn and Galen were here, waiting for us. Presentations done, we started pretty fast with diner which was really good :D. Real american BBQ, home made tarts (blue berries & cherries, absolutely delicious, thank you Deanna) and home made ice cream (thank you Glenn!!). Then, I showed some pictures from YellowStone. I am still amazed by what we saw there!! And to finish the evening, before going to bed, it was 4th of july here, Galen had prepared some stuff so we had our fireworks (and dynamite actually :D, Thank you Galen!!)

Little contest: On the next pictures, what is this thing used for?