# On The Road Again - Our Journey Through The West Coast of the USA

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 11, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-road-again-our-journey-through-the-west-coast-of-the-usa/668576 "2013-09-11T15:54:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-road-again-our-journey-through-the-west-coast-of-the-usa/668576/61 "2013-09-20T04:05:25Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> \<snip\> Up here in Washington, and especially down in Oregon, people drive slowly and they will _not_ get out of the left lane. \<snip\>

We’ve noticed. Huge snarls of traffic around semi-trailers trying to chug their way up long, long hills, and some jackhole will. not. get out of the left lane. I don’t think we’ve been any situations more dangerous in all of our travels than the idiots who won’t clear the fast lane so faster traffic can get by, and a whole clot of frustrated drivers all get tangled up, undertaking and making bad decisions.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-road-again-our-journey-through-the-west-coast-of-the-usa/668576/62 "2013-09-20T14:02:37Z")

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> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#):
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> **Cat Whisperer** and I drove to Vegas and back in 2006 taking the five-day scenic route through the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Yellowstone and Salt Lake City on the way there and the four-day Rachel, NV, Bryce Canyon route home, so we’ve seen most everything worth seeing between home and Vegas. 🙂
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> The jury’s still out on which is our next most hated state. But Wisconsin is moving up the list, what with people from there asking stupid questions… :mad:

Our senses are clogged by cheese, so things that seem abvious to everyone else seems cloudy and a little yellowish to us.

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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-road-again-our-journey-through-the-west-coast-of-the-usa/668576/63 "2013-09-21T23:15:08Z")

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And we’re home again. Our final day didn’t go as planned; we planned to go from Spokane, Washington to Radium Hot Springs, BC and spend the night there. As it turned out, there is some kind of classic car convention there, so all the hotels were booked. We had a nice dinner, took a two hour soak in the hot pool, then just drove on home, getting home at 11:00 at night.

We always know that there is a chance of this happening when we don’t book hotel rooms in advance, but it very rarely actually happens (I think this is the first time).

It was a very good trip all around; we saw tons of interesting things and interesting places, we met some nice new people, we had many good meals; all over, it was two thumbs up. 🙂

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