Are you saying the wedding is being held at Taste Washington?

If not, dress for the wedding and dress separately for Taste Washington. You could literally go in flip flops and shorts if you wanted.

The Missoula Floods! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_Lake_Missoula?wprov=sfti1 https://maps.apple.com/?ll=46.938889,-114.143611&q=Glacial%20Lake%20Missoula

It’s hard to go wrong with a flannel shirt in Washington

Central Washington is a college

Funny, like Spokane being all woods I see your point. That said if you drew a line down the cascades which most people mentally do, 80% of the eastern side is like shrubland

Lot of good natural history. Basically everything east of the cascades use to be a giant rainforest 3.5 million years ago. 12,000 years ago it was all glaciers that formed the gorge, grand coulee and ancient lakes (picture Niagara Falls but dried up now). Seriously so much cool wonder out in eastern Washington being from western Washington I thought it was all desert. There’s little nuggets of history everywhere. Here check out this website of top 100 natural sites in Washington. It was made by the Washington Geological Society. I recently moved to eastern Washington and I’ve visited almost every place now

https://wa100.dnr.wa.gov/

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What about AZ?

Western WA is made of "exotic terranes" that came here from Mexicoish. The continental US border is around Spokane.

If you really like geography, Dr. Nick Zentner of CWU has many many videos on YouTube. He's really understandable and he knows his stuff!

Check out its history and you’ll be left going….huh? Consider that Juan De Fuca wasn’t Juan De Fuca at all. And maybe didn’t exist. As a hint, Fuca is the Spanish feminine form of “pond scum”.

I always consider Eastern WA to be from the Columbia river gorge east. Central is this real narrow band, once you hit the basalt flats you’re there?

'From sea level to ski level' is part of one slogan I've seen for the state.

Yes I feel lucky to have been born here and able to call it home. As a photographer there is a wide variety of scenery.

In about 3 hours I can be at the ocean, or rain forest, or desert, or mountains, etc...

I agree:-)

Prusik peak is a fun one. We climbed via the Becky-Davis route.

And don’t forget alpine tundra! 😃

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Washington_Köppen.svg

Having grown up here, collectively we call anything east of the cascades “eastern Washington” because the cascades provide such a clear cultural and climatological divide. I see Central WA as a subregion of eastern WA, and I genuinely don’t know anybody who really uses the term central WA (unlike in Oregon where Central Oregon is used frequently). That said, where central WA ends and you just have the rest of eastern WA, I’m not sure. I see Highway 97 being the spine of central WA. Ritzville is a likely dividing line between central and eastern, but I could also see that at Moses lake too.

Opinion of a geographer: if you make two divisions, the cascade crest should be the division between east and west, but I like the concept of an eastern, central, and west Washington. I can't help but wonder, if you're going to make the divisions though, could that third division be better used to highlight another part of the state with more distinction from the rest than the difference the near east side of the Cascades had from the rest of the eastern state. Eg: east and west and Spokane region is third division? East and West but Seattle metro and the islands get the third division?

In a comparable size is there anywhere in the world that you can say hands down has more geographic diversity?

The Channeled Scablands - https://hugefloods.com/Scablands.html

I didn’t know the puget sound was a system of fjords! I’ve never wanted to learn about the local geography more than right now

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Not to mention’s the grand coulee which feels like it’s own place from the rest of the state

Thank you, your kindness helps. I appreciate that. It’s been so difficult lately and I have felt so alone.

Yes, I am still employed by the company who falsely reported my hours. I am due to return to work in a couple of weeks pending a post op follow up this coming week. I do have access to all my pay stubs online. I went ahead and saved them all to come computer and am in the process of uploading them to the WA ESD website. The HR department denies they did it and insist it is my error, although it has proven to be theirs. HR has told me I need to fix it myself. I shouldn’t have to do that.

I will contact the labor department, thank you. Someone mentioned that the under reporting of my hours could effect a lot of different things like my social security and what not.

I will look into that today, I’m not sure. Thank you for telling me that.