As we drive across America, we often wonder what crops are being grown on the fields to our left/right. Sometimes, our history and childhoods helps us out – corn and wheat for Ruthi and cotton for Boots. Today on Interstate 90 from Yakima, WA to Cheney, WA at about miles 151 to 180, there are signs (like street signs size and lettering) on the fencing that separates the highway from the access/frontage roads. We are guessing that some local 4-H group did the work to make us travelers much more informed. We passed potato, grain corn, sweet corn, grass hay, and timothy hay fields.
Occasionally, we have a lot of traffic going our way but (as today) we have noticed that fewer cars are going our way. We like to think it’s because we are free thinkers on adventure but since we mostly are on interstates, it doesn’t seem likely. When we were going North on WA 97 to Yakima, WA everybody was going South. In fact we saw a 5th wheel with a very long parade behind them. There had to be at least 100 vehicles waiting to get around the slower moving 5th wheel.
Since this drive was a bit smoother (i.e. more level) we were watching our MPG. There was a 30+ mile part of the trip where the message was “Cleaning Exhaust Filter”. That seemed to make a difference and we slowly moved from 9.0 to 9.1, 9.2 and ended at the campsite with 9.4 MPG. So, we are hoping that it is finally back on track because our call into the Spokane, WA Ford dealer was less than helpful. We have had relatively good customer service and responses across America, with the exception of only a few (Bishop, CA; Gresham OR; and now seemingly Spokane, WA).
