Today we started a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, with stops in Salt Lake City, Utah, Roswell, New Mexico, Denver, Colorado, Deadwood, South Dakota (to see Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse) and maybe we’ll even take in Old Faithful in Yellowstone. Today we dropped Bailey off at the Maximum Security prison where she will be boarded with some inmates.

The border lineups were long, due to the long weekend, but we managed to get through in a relatively short one hour. Luckily we were able to use the Nexus line, but we had quite a long wait to get to the Nexus lane – the Abottsford border can only be approached by a single line road, and the Nexus lane only branches off when you are within three hundred metres of the border!

We were hoping to get to Kennewick, but managed to only get to a quaint little town called Ellensburg Washington, about 350 kms from home. We didn’t see Ellen, but the locale is much like the Kelowna area of BC. We had a nice dinner at the Roadhouse Grill. Very good service, and the food was pretty good. Prices were ok, not great. Had a nice local beer, very tasty.

Tomorrow, we’re going to aim to get to Boise Idaho. We don’t need to get to Santa Fe until Tuesday, so we can take our time on the road and stop to see the sights. There have been some nice looking roadside fruit stands, so we’ll make a stop and get some cherries at least!