On the Road-Mount Rainier

Monday

We drove to Mt. Rainier which, like Mt. St. Helen's takes a long time to get to as it is in an isolated area. At first when you enter it looks like lovely woods and then you see and can hike to and over water streams and falls. Mount Rainier is also a volcano, and altho I have not heard of a major eruption, there are plenty of uprooted tree parts lying amidst rocks and sand and that has most likely been carried down by the water.

When you get up to 5000 feet, then you begin to get glimpses of the snow covered and in other spots vegetation covered mountain peaks and it is truly beautiful. It takes a while to get to 5000 as it requires a more than forty mile drive. We hiked up Comet Falls Trail and began a few other trails.

We arrived at our fancy hote, the Sheraton in Seattle and right across from our favorite restaurant, the Cheesecake Factory. The hotel is really pissing David off--one reason being that they don't have a free wi-fi connection in the rooms--only in athe lobby.