Back across the state time, so yet another early morning. And, of course, once again we’re not exactly taking the direct route. We had two main stops planned for this trip across the state. First, we headed up to the Grand Coulee Dam. Apparently the biggest dam in the country, although even after looking at it, I’m not overly convinced of it. Looked into their tours, but turns out their elevator was broken, so all people were getting was a brief trip basically out to a viewpoint it seemed. Since we had just missed a tour by 5 minutes, and had to wait till the next hour to take one, didn’t particularly seem worth the effort.
From there, we headed down to the Dry Falls area (which apparently is in Sun Lakes State Park). This is an area that was apparently carved out by a giant flood a long time ago, leaving bare cliffs where water used to flow over. Visited the overlook at the top of the cliffs where the visitor center is, then headed down into the area. Did think it was a little odd that they made the visitors center white. From down below, it kinda stuck out pretty badly.
From there we followed 2 across the rest of the way, which seems to be a fairly scenic route. Got into Seattle to once again hit the rush hour traffic, although again we seemed to mainly be moving against the main flow, so wasn’t too bad. Checked into the Grand Hyatt, then walked down to the Pike Street Market. However, at this point apparently everything was pretty much shut down. So after wandering for a bit, then catching dinner, headed back to the hotel for the evening.