Made It

After a slight delay in order to get some much needed rest, I am now following directions from my facebook hecklers and providing an official "we're here" post.
How about some driving stats?

Miles: 2900 (even, wow)
Gas Mileage: 25.2 (we had a rooftop box that put a hurtin on our little car)
Gas Used: 115 gallons
Time on the road: 43.5 hours
Traveling Days: 6
Carsick dogs: 0 !!
Bugs Splattered: ~35,000
# of times I plan on making this drive again: ~0





So we made it shortly after my last post and got settled into our new temporary home. It's a pretty nice little apartment all furnished up. Hopefully we can strike a deal to stay here after the company stops paying for it while we wait for the house to sell (which at this rate will be sometime in 2015).



So here we are in the Tri Cities in south central Washington. So far, I really like the town(s). Aprill had made it out to be pretty much like Hickory, but it's far from it. Population is probably ~ 200k in a pretty tight area. So it really feels like a large suburb (really reminds me of Richmond). It's strange though, because it's a suburb without a city... it's more of a suburb in the middle of farm land. As far as we know, the main industry is the DOE work (which is what we are both working on), so thank you for your patronage to the IRS!

The pictures above are from a hike we took to the top of the local hill (and it was pretty tough, poor carter isn't moving much today!). There was one other picture that I couldn't get because it was a bit to hazy, but you can see Mt Rainer from here... and wow it's big. We are probably 150 miles away and it's still the tallest peak on the horizon. So if she blows... well, lets hope she doesn't!

Well, I'll add to this every now and again to keep you up to date. Hopefully I can post some pictures of some monster trout sometime soon!

All the best,
Adam