On the road again...

After that harrowing trip back to SLC, we finished packing up the house, and got most of the important renovation work finished. As for the remainder, well, too bad: if people want to buy a 100% turn-key move-in ready custom house, they won't be looking at our house anyway. We worked with N to get it listed, and are both listing it for sale and rental simultaneously. I'm of mixed minds on it: as great an investment as real estate is, and as much work as we put into that house, I'm sick as hell of it in a lot of ways.

We drove out of SLC on the 2nd, spent a night in Boise, ID, and then last night in Yakima, WA (where I'm writing from the hotel room while J sleeps.) Today we drive the last little bit to Seattle. Sure is nice the feds only require that you drive 350 miles per day.

Today will be interesting for food: judging from the signs in the windows, this little slice of small town central Washington is closed tight for the fourth of July holiday. I might have to suffer the overpriced breakfast buffet downstairs, since the in-room coffee I'm drinking tastes like diesel exhaust with a side of latex paint. Here, at the allegedly nicest hotel in Yakima (the Hilton Garden Inn) the last guest's coffee was still in the filter basket in the coffee maker. Classy!

I'm going to try to toss up a few Australia pictures here, so I'll sign this off now.