Day 7 – Interstate 5

Well, sooner or later we had to spend sometime on I5 and today was the day we had to pay our dues for this trip.  We got on the road around 9 AM and headed north from Eugene on the Dreaded I5.

Traffic was actually not all that bad, until we hit Portland.  Bettie’s GPS has a traffic alert feature that activated several times on our trip through the city, unfortunately the GPS could not find a route around the stalls that were any faster, so we soldiered on until we got through it and continued our trip up to Tacoma WA where we took 512 to 410 and arrived in Enumclaw at the Cedars motel near the home of my best friend and as close to a sister that I will ever have,  Louanna Kitchen, soon to be married on Saturday to Don Bonogofski.

I haven’t been keeping up with the filling station Bettie comments, but a rough tally of the trip so far has the ever popular Chevy Nomad in the lead, closely followed by the ever popular Buick.  We did have one person think that it was a Mercury, which is a new one, and I think there was also one that thought it was a Pontiac, which has been mentioned before.

One lady around my age came up to the car and told me that her family had a 1956 Dodge sedan that she had learned to drive in. She wanted to know where the push buttons to control the transmission went! I showed her how I had converted it to an A/C outlet and let her sit in the driver’s seat… I think I saw a tear in the corner of her eye. I guess it brought back a lot of memories…

I also had a younger man ID Bettie correctly at another stop and he thanked me for bringing her back to life so that he could see it on the highway.

Today we are taking it easy and visiting with Lou and Don.