Road Trip -- Day 2

Hello from the Pacific Northwest!  We are on Day 2 of our trip to British Columbia; we went through Oregon and Washington, to get to beautiful Vancouver.  

Here we are in Oregon -- can you tell by the logging truck?  I decided to do a series of vignettes in my sketchbook and found lots of things to sketch in Oregon -- barns, lambs, all kinds of interesting things.  But in Washington -- trees.  Nothing but trees, bordering the highway all the way.  Not much to sketch!

At some point, we started to get close -- Vancouver ahead!   It doesn't look that far on the map, but it takes a loooong time to get through Washington State.  Finally, we made it to the border and were ready to go through customs -- 

I kind of freak out at customs.  My mother was an American citizen, but she had been born in Germany, and every time we went through customs when I was a kid, she would turn around and point her finger at us kids and say, "When we go through, no one talks but Dad.  Whatever you do, don't tell them I was born in Germany."  We would hold our collective breaths until we got through -- we couldn't imagine what horrible fate would lie ahead if one of us (e.g. my three-year-old brother) would pipe up and say "My mom was born in Germany!"  Would we be searched?  Would our mother be taken away?  Of course not, but when you're a little kid, you fear all kinds of crazy things.  So to this day, I get anxious when we approach customs . . . 

But . . . we had no problem getting through, and here we are!  We have a lovely room (suite, really) on the 15th floor of a downtown hotel.

We had a lovely dinner at our hotel's restaurant, and now we're relaxing, watching the Olympics.  More fun tomorrow --