10. Washington

    For this leg of our journey, we were actually in Washington twice. We flew into Seattle on Thursday night and spent the night to catch an early morning flight to Spokane on Friday morning on our first Southwest Airlines flight. The baggage claim in Spokane looked like a roulette wheel. We rented our car in Spokane and drove to Idaho and Montana. We drove back to Spokane on Sunday when we flew to Seattle. We had a few hours in Seattle so we rented a car and drove downtown to see the space needle and then to the pier to have a late lunch at The Crab Pot.

We selected the crab and shrimp combo since neither of us are mussel or clam fans. This was the first disappointing meal we have had on this adventure. Don't get me wrong, it was good but I'm a Louisiana girl who likes her seafood seasoned. The crabs and shrimp were plentiful but there was no seasoning on them or the corn and potatoes. The sourdough bread was, however, very good. If you don't like seasoned food, then this is the place for you. We drove back to the Seattle airport for our evening flight to Oakland. Who says you can't have a meal on a Southwest Airlines flight? Remember the doggie bag from the Lolo Steakhouse? We both enjoyed our leftovers as we flew to Oakland. Once in Oakland we had to somehow get to the San Francisco Airport for our late night flight back to Dallas. We contemplated on the BART or a shuttle van but opted for a private driver. We negotiated to what the shuttle would have cost and was on our way.

Leg 4 -
     4 days
     5 flights
     630 miles driven
     1 private driver /car
         = 3 states visited
                      40 states to go!