After Saturday was spent at the church fair/Ballard watering hole/ and fiddling with a Mini till midnight Marian SUGGESTED that we go for a drive on Sunday. Okey Dokey. We left at the crack of 10:30 for the once every 10 year tour of the mountain.
I-5, 520 ,405 , left at Renton. Not much traffic but my how Maple Valley has changed. Enumclaw and then 410, not bad for cruising. At the junction with Hwy123 the construction signs appeared. What could have been a disaster turned into that dream road! No traffic, the asphalt was so new it wasn't striped yet. Smoooooth and yet twisty. We then hit the parts of 123 that hadn't been redone yet, a bit lumpy.
Paradise Lodge will be closing this week so the service was a bit dodgy (paper napkins????), food was mediocre but plentifull. Hmmmm, bring a picnic next time.
A lot more traffic on the South, Hwy 706, side of the hill. Slower is OK because the views are spectacular. Picked up Hwy 7, the old standby to Portland, northbound this time. I couldn't resist the 161 turnoff to Eatonville and enjoyed the road till it straighted out and turned into the strip mall and traffic light hell of Puyallup's South Hill. Oh! There's 167, let's go home!
Don
I-5, 520 ,405 , left at Renton. Not much traffic but my how Maple Valley has changed. Enumclaw and then 410, not bad for cruising. At the junction with Hwy123 the construction signs appeared. What could have been a disaster turned into that dream road! No traffic, the asphalt was so new it wasn't striped yet. Smoooooth and yet twisty. We then hit the parts of 123 that hadn't been redone yet, a bit lumpy.
Paradise Lodge will be closing this week so the service was a bit dodgy (paper napkins????), food was mediocre but plentifull. Hmmmm, bring a picnic next time.
A lot more traffic on the South, Hwy 706, side of the hill. Slower is OK because the views are spectacular. Picked up Hwy 7, the old standby to Portland, northbound this time. I couldn't resist the 161 turnoff to Eatonville and enjoyed the road till it straighted out and turned into the strip mall and traffic light hell of Puyallup's South Hill. Oh! There's 167, let's go home!
Don
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