Spontaneous Getaway

Totally unplanned! Totally unthought out! Lacking of any direction! No time line! No route to follow! And the most fun we've ever had!!

Hubby & I took off on a road trip in northern Washington this weekend. It was about as spontaneous as we get. We crossed the border to go down south on Saturday morning just to pick up a package we had shipped there. Nothing unusual about that. We often have stuffed shipped to Oroville because we live right on the border so its easy to pick up. (For those shipments that don't ship to Canada) And I was hoping we might 'go for a drive' so I took my camera with me as usual.

Well, we decided to go for a drive after all...and then it turned into a road trip that lasted 30 hours!
On a whim, we just said "Let's Go!" and we took off for the south with no place in mind except to just go. I took stock of what was actually IN the car. I had a sweater and a blanket. We were wearing nothing but shorts, t-shirts & flip flops. So, we pulled into a Walmart & bought a couple t-shirts for the next day & new underwear. (Hey, everyone needs new underwear anyways) We checked a road map in the book section of Walmart & chose Leavenworth as our direction to travel. I had always heard that Leavenworth was this adorable 'MUST SEE' Bavarian town so that's where we pointed the car. A few stops along the way & in a couple of hours we were there! And it WAS beautiful. Felt like I was somewhere in the Alps with the 'oom pa pa' music playing & Bavarian buildings everywhere. We walked around for about 2 hours & then we headed on the road again.

This time we pointed west! We figured we might as well head to the ocean! So to Pugeot Sound we drove & ended up in the town of Everett. Drove around for a bit but found no hotels so we head north & finally found one in Mt. Vernon where we stayed for the night!

After a hearty Denny's breakfast, we decided to head back north east through the beautiful North Cascades highway route. And it was BEAUTIFUL. We stopped at several little towns along the way, towns like Concrete, Diablo & Winthrop & at every other 'look-out' stop to take pictures...over 300 pictures.
We had such a fun & relaxing time together, having no deadlines, no route of places we "had to be" and no rush to get to any of them. And if we had been wearing our hiking boots, I think we could have stopped for so many more little hikes along the way.

I have so many more photos to share but they'll have to come out in future blogs! I just wanted to share a glimpse into our spontaneous time away & say "Just Go!" and try a spontaneous unplanned road trip of your own! You never know what you'll find along the way. It could just be your smile & one of the greatest memories you'll have.

So now we're actually going to PLAN a real trip like this. Oh, maybe not the actual stops or destinations, but a road trip in the fall, when the tourists have filtered away and when its not quite so hot. And we can head lazily down to the ocean & down the beautiful Oregon coast. This time, we'll be bringing more than our flip-flops so we can stop at some of these mountain hikes.