It's truly special. I teared up last time

Have you been to the Sawtooth Mountain range, or sun valley, or Sandpoint. Plenty of beauty in that state

Yeah I've done it but I was broken down in my own town.

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If you have a friend/family with a pickup maybe rent a car trailer from Sunbelt and strap it down?

You've only seen it that one time?! jk

Northwest is great till you get over the weather. I love it here it’s sorta peaceful still in the sticks where I live.

this is the way, then for a shell, scrap yards give 100-300

I just had AAA tow two cars directly to my house last weekend. In fact, every time I have had them tow a vehicle, it has always been directly to my house.

AAA, I have roadside with my insurance, 15 miles free off the main road to wherever then you pay the rest. ask friends, they can ride with you and you pay the remaining 45 miles

They'll tow most anywhere in the radius... But the radius is sharply limited (10 miles I think?) during (IIRC) the first 30 days of your membership.

Have a friend with AAA that is willing to go with you. Some plans allow you to tow it where you want.

I used to have the RV/motorcycle plan which was pretty spendy and all my friends and family called me for free tows. I no longer have AAA 🙂

The only way you’re gonna tow that far for that cheap is on your own… or maybe if you have a friend with a trailer.

A tow dolly or flatbed trailer from uhaul will run about $45-$60 plus tax.

Towing one way, 60 miles, with something capable will likely use 4 gallons of diesel or 5 gallons of gas… for a cost of around $20…

It’s probably cheaper to have a friend drive it for you if it runs.

I currently have AAA and fortunately have not had to use it much. It could get you closer to your home but if there's a place to repair in between that's where they'll take you. So I don't know if they would cover it at all for a car that is completely non functional. Fortunately my issues have mostly been dead batteries and they come out and give me a charge. Next step, battery store LOL.

Idaho is brown and smells like cows.

Shhh…it’s awful here and it rains every day.

Ah. Never used it. I had the understanding it was more flexible, especially in getting cars closer to your home.

You have to get a scrap/salvage title for it. Contact the vehicle crimes division of your local police force. Get them to sign a thing saying that it's not stolen, get a salvage title. Take it to scrap yard. I've done it on two parts cars, a detective comes out, checks the vin, runs it in the DB and you're good to go.

Mount Rainier = so much beauty. Rainier the town ( oregon side of the columbia river) not so much. If you move over watch out for southern Wa. The property is cheaper because the area is full of problems, and I'm not sure why. You have the right idea with Seattle, awesome area.

I think that tow only goes to nearest repair facility though.

Get a AAA membership? The Plus membership level would allow you to get towed up to 100 miles 4x a year. It costs around $100, but it would be good for the year.

It may depend on which division of DSHS you are working with but I know with DDA, a spouse cannot be paid CG. Im a case manager.

It's way more than the ocean beaches. Basically the whole time you are circling the Olympic mountains and Olympic national park. By the way, the northern WA. beaches are very beautiful, especially from the ocean side.

I don’t :-)

And that is how I went from living in the Midwest to living in Washington state. When I visited my grad school visit, I fell in love immediately, especially the mountains- I studied them in grad school (at CWU in Ellensburg) from 2011-2013. After grad school I moved back to Iowa and cried when I crossed the border into Idaho. Spent 2.5 years plotting to get back here and finally got the chance thanks to a job offer in 2015. I’ll never live anywhere else.