I'm from Philadelphia and the driving rules there are "do whatever you want and make sure you do it before the guy who has right of way can do it." Everyone is in an enormous, angry hurry, and the law is for suckers.

Driving here is really peaceful in comparison. Though I also felt that way going cross country.

Clearly he loved his Pacific Northwest & Washington. I don’t blame him one bit.

Awesome picture! We were on the ferry crossing to Vashon when it stopped because they surrounded us. Absolutely awe-inspiring animals.

Born and raised in Washington. A mountain climber. Did a 2,000' elev gain easy hike before leaving. Lived in Ohio near Cincinnati for 5 months. Only brown water everywhere, and it was undrinkable. No mountains. No hills. The highest elevation anywhere near us was 300' Mt Rummke. The local garbage company was the Rummke Trash Disposal company. Mt Rummke was the local garbage hill, with bulldozers constantly running around over its surface. Never so glad to get back to Washington in my life. Clear blue water, gorgeous lovely mountains. Felt EXACTLY like your father :):):).

Was your grandfather nick carraway?

Whatever. Spent a couple years in Texas. Way worse. Drive into flood crossings, poke along in left lane, cut in at every exit. Oh, I could go on...

It’s a privilege here too but the bar to entry is set so low it might as well be a right

You could for real sell posters of this if you wanted.

No, she's a chef on Food Network

Eew.

Out of sight, out of mind. My understanding is that while it has always been prevalent, it wasn't really identified officially as being prevalent in the American wilderness until the 1970s (when researchers went looking for it).

He's kissing the Idaho side.

It's a coastal thing. The majority of the East Coast is the same way.

I think we might benefit from the more assertive driving style of the East Coast. Had a colleague from Boston talk about how weird our lack of honking was to her ("If you don't use your horn, how will they learn?"). Made me smile extra when she upped her Bostonian accent to say it.

Best driving I've ever had was Germany though. It's a privilege, not a right, and so the standard for your driving skill and your regard for other drivers is high. And even their two-lane country roads were gorgeously maintained.

There was no Giardia before 1950?

They probably weren't too focused on using the correct map projection while creating the sign along with cartographic generalization at this scale

Hope that welcome sign is a little bit inside the line otherwise he's kissing Idaho.

I was born and raised in Washington. I lived in Tennessee and Illinois briefly before moving back to WA and I feel this picture so hard. As much as I want to move sometimes, I really can’t imagine living anywhere else.

It's how we bond.

Giardia is a parasite and has nothing to do with the military.

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Is the photo distorting the map of the state on the sign? That's not what the outline of the state looks like today.

Stay left and set up a horizontal 50mph conga line. It's how we know you've been here since birth.

Big feels. Left home almost eight years ago. Still miss Washington every day.

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