Seattle to Chicago in a 40 year old Toyota

Kyle had learned to drive stick shift in my Scion XD, but that was a couple years ago.  We used an industrial park near our first overnight stop, for a refresher.  After maybe 45 minutes of looping around a couple of turnabouts, we hit the interstate.


Our first lunch stop was Nutty's Junkyard grill in Arlington, WA
Kyle needed to brush-up on his stick-shift driving, before hitting the road
The exhaust leak was right at the manifold, which was missing a couple of studs
A box of generic pop-tarts was about the right height, to hold up the exhaust during a repair attempt
A continental divide, somewhere in Montana I believe
The old man on the right gave us directions to bypass the interstate for a bit
A sunset

Filling up near Sturgis, SD
Representing Japanese imports at Sturgis 2016
Lunch at Wall Drug


We rode with the windows down and the heat on, to keep her cool

Home!

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